A 3-minute love letter to cinema that'll make you grab your phone and create.
James’s film provides us with a thoughtful history of photography and the moving image that both pays tribute to the past and celebrates how advancements in technology support the ever-evolving nature of cinema. His film elaborates on a history of storytelling through image and how we can use the iPhone and other new technologies to create, reflect and inspire in our day-to-day lives.
Direction
Schamus packs a century of film history into 180 seconds.
Editing
Seamless temporal jumps from daguerreotypes to iPhone 11.
Director
James Schamus
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during peak 'phone bad, book good' discourse, this quietly radical doc celebrates rather than moralizes.
Schamus — yes, that Schamus, Ang Lee's longtime writer/producer — made this as a passion project about the medium itself.
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