Today one of the easiest things to do in the world is to take a video with your phone. You can preserve all your precious memories in perfectly clear digital form inside a little black box. When you ...

There is an origin story for every filmmaker. And many of the directors that we laud the most today had their first taste of filmmaking with the Bolex camera in their hands. First built in the 1920s, ...

Beyond the Bolex is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet, Roku, Samsung Smart TV, and ...

The action of the film is direct: Holt walks through the tall grasses of a swamp while filming with her Bolex camera, guided only by what she can see through the camera lens and by Smithson's verbal ...