thefilmbook.com . volumes 1 and 2

the film book . com

This site offers a practical guide to filmmaking, with a special emphasis on the cinematic image.

This multimedia book is made of video, audio, images, and text and will appear on the web in installments over the next few years.

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About the author

Benjamin Bergery aka benjaminb is a cinema journalist, teacher and media technologist.

Benjamin has taught at MIT and USC, and has worked at Atari, LucasFilm and Panavision.

Benjamin is the author of the 2002 book Reflections, and the editor of the first 2 issues of the French Lumieres review. He is a European correspondent for the American Cinematographer magazine.

Benjamin is a consultant member of the AFC (society of French cinematographers)