- Amidst a constant stream of hundreds of film clips, dozens of filmmakers voice their opinions on the titular question while primarily looking beyond the Hollywood mainstream to independent, experimental, documentary and avant-garde films.
- Using the words and ideas of great filmmakers, from archival interviews with Alfred Hitchcock and Robert Bresson to new interviews with Mike Leigh, David Lynch, and Jonas Mekas, Oscar-winning filmmaker Chuck Workman shows what these filmmakers and others do that can't be expressed in words - but only in cinema.—Anonymous
- What is Cinema? is an attempt to chronicle where the best of cinema might be today and where is will be, or should be tomorrow. Andre Bazin, from whose group of essays the title is borrowed, tried to define this from a critical point of view. This documentary instead looks at the films and filmmakers that, in the opinion of the director, might matter today or tomorrow, narratives, dramatic films, and experimental films that use the cinematic tool kit in ways that Picasso or Frank Lloyd Wright or Chekhov might have used their art form's tools, often breaking the rules, or inventing new ones, asking the audience to look harder, listen more carefully, think about the form of the work as much as the content.—Anonymous
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