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Now Streaming & On DVD!
THE Cinema Within
An Inquiry into the Deepest of Cinematic Mysteries
Featuring Famed Editor Walter Murch & Many Others!
Find it on Amazon, Kanopy & DVD !
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From the director of The Pruitt-Igoe Myth comes a documentary about the psychology of film editing.
Why does the uniquely cinematic language of film editing work? In real life we don't instantly jump from one viewpoint to another. And yet, film viewers effortlessly understand, and don't even notice, most edits. Using a wide array of fascinating clips, famed editor Walter Murch, scholar David Bordwell and eminent psychologists confront the mystery behind the profound naturalness of film editing.
Produced over four years, The Cinema Within is a film unlike any other. Playfully inventive in its construction and striking in its visuals, it dives deep into the deliberately hidden language of film editing – a language so seemingly natural it usually goes unnoticed. Drawing on dozens of examples from both well-known and obscure films across cinema history, it explores not only the essential grammar of the world’s most popular art form, but the very mechanics of how we perceive reality. The result is a scientific cinematic adventure – a documentary in which our basic understanding of film editing becomes the dramatic heart of its story.
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"A fascinating film about the complex relationship between the eye, the brain, our memory, and the abiding weight of context."
- New York Sun
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“An entertaining,
thought-provoking and well-edited film.”
- Mystery Catalog
“Riveting! Unexpected and insightful...revelatory.”
- Oregon Arts Watch
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THE CINEMA WITHIN
A film by Chad Friedrichs
93 minutes | color | 2025
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