My Conversations on Film

This distinctly personal journey into the artistic possibilities of independent film is not to be missed Jonas Mekas JeanPierre Gorin Robert Kramer and many other visionaries and mavericks of the silver screen as well as a book seller a critic and a psychoanalyst discuss what cinema has meant to them what it is and what it could be and implicitly how it has changed over the 18 years in which this film was shot Director Boris Lehman leads the charge drawing in moments of absurdist humour and inventive camera work he keeps things raw and spontaneous His encounters with the now muchmissed Jean Rouch and Stephen Dwoskin are particularly touching and stand testament to their personal playfulness and candour An engaging absorbing epic odyssey of a movie