Der Vorführ-Effekt

How do you entertain yourself while entertaining others? A short documentary about a nighttime projectionist passing the time.

An ode to projection in cinema, from the work of the projectionist to the machines that light up the theaters.

When the UK's oldest working cinema opened in 1909, it took five years to train a projectionist - a century later, it takes less than an hour. The...

Hollywood has made up their minds, forcing theaters to convert to digital or go dark. As theaters around the world change to newer digital...

A 'cine-ramic' roller-coaster ride through the rise, fall and re-birth of projected film.

This is the story of my grandfather, Tiago Florit, who for 50 years was a film operator at the Teatre Principal de Maó, in Menorca. It is a...

Documentary charting the experiences of projectionists who work or worked in cinemas in London, exploring the skills and dedication required for this...

After his father's death, a young boy finds solace in action movies featuring an indestructible cop. Given a magic ticket by a theater manager, he is...

With a torrid past that haunts him, a movie theatre owner is hired to search for the only existing print of a film so notorious that its single...

Jean and Bill are a married couple trying to scrape a living. Out of the blue they receive a telegram informing them Bill's long-lost uncle has died...

A projectionist bored with his everyday life begins fantasizing about his being one of the superheroes he sees in the movies he shows.

A new projectionist spends her first evening on the job screening short films for an upcoming festival inside an old movie house. As she watches the...