Introduction. The Lettristes disavow the insulters of Chaplin / The avant-garde(s). The futurist cinema / Lettriste International -- Lenin decree / Vladimir Ilyich Lenin -- The ABCs of cinema / Blaise Cendrars -- WE: variant of a manifesto / Dziga Vertov -- The method of making workers' films / Sergei Eisenstein -- Constructivism in the cinema / Alexei Gan -- Preface : Un chien Andalou / Luis Buñuel -- Manifesto of the surrealists concerning L'age d'or / The Surrealist Group -- Manifesto on Que viva Mexico / The editors of Experimental film -- Spirit of truth / Le Corbusier -- An open letter to the film industry and to all who are interested in the evolution of the good film / László Moholy-Nagy -- Light*Form*Movement*Sound / Mary Ellen Bute -- Prolegomena for all future cinema / Guy Debord -- No more flat feet! / Lettriste International -- The Lettristes disavow the insulters of Chaplin / Keith Sanborn -- Modern, all too modern / Jim Davis -- A statement of principles / Maya Deren -- The first statement of the New American Cinema Group / New American Cinema Group -- Foundation for the Invention and Creation of Absurd Movies / Ron Rice -- from Metaphors on vision / Stan Brakhage -- Kuchar 8mm film manifesto / George Kuchar -- Film andepandan [independents] manifesto / Takahiko Iimura, Koichiro Ishizaki, et al. -- Discontinuous films / Keewatin Dewdney -- Hand-made films manifesto / Ubu Films, Thoms -- Cinema manifesto / Arthur Cantrill and Corinne Cantrill -- For a metahistory of film: commonplace notes and hypotheses / Hollis Frampton -- Elements of the void / Gregory Markopoulos -- Small gauge manifesto / JoAnn Eleam and Chuck Kleinhans -- Cinema of transgression manifesto / Nick Zedd -- Modern, all too modern / Keith Sanborn -- Your film farm manifesto on process cinema / Philip Hoffman -- Anti-100 years of cinema manifesto / Jonas Mekas -- The decalogue / Jan Švankmajer -- Your film farm manifesto on process cinema / Philip Hoffman -- I sinema manifesto / from The glass eye / Dimas Djayadinigrat, Enison Sinaro, et al. -- The Archers' manifesto / Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger -- What is wrong with Indian films? / Satyajit Ray -- Buñuel the poet / Octavio Paz -- French cinema is over / Serge Berna, Guy Debord, et al. -- Some ideas on the cinema / Cesare Zavattini -- A certain tendency in French cinema / François Truffaut -- Salamanca manifesto & conclusions of the Congress of Salamanca / Juan Antonio Bardem -- Free Cinema manifestos / Committee for Free Cinema -- The Oberhausen manifesto / Alexander Kluge, Edgar Reitz, et al. -- Untitled [Oberhausen 1965] / Jean-Marie Straub, Rodolf Thome, Dirk Alvermann, et al. -- The Mannheim declaration / Joseph von Sternberg, Alexander Kluge, et al. -- Sitges manifesto / Manuel Revuelta, Antonio Artero, Joachin Jordà, and Julián Marcos -- How to make a Canadian film / Guy Glover -- How to not make a Canadian film / Claude Jutra -- from The estates general of the French cinema, May 1968 / Thierry Derocles, Michel Demoule, Claude Chabrol, and Marin Karmitz -- Manifesto of the New Cinema Movement / Arun Kaul and Mrinal Sen -- What is to be done? / Jean-Luc Godard -- The Winnipeg manifesto / Denys Arcand, Colin Low, Don Shebib, et al. -- Hamburg declaration of German filmmakers / Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Werner Herzog, Wim Wenders, et al. -- Manifesto I ; Manifesto II ; Manifesto III: I confess! / Lars von Trier -- The cinema we need / R. Bruce Elder -- Pathways to the establishment of a Nigerian film industry / Ola Balogun -- Manifesto of 1988 / Young DEFA Filmmakers -- In praise of a poor cinema / Colin McArthur -- Dogme '95 manifesto and vow of chastity / Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg -- I sinema manifesto / Dimas Djayadinigrat, Enison Sinaro, et al. -- 8 millimeters verus 8 millions / Manifesto of the New Cinema Group / Jaime Humberto Hermosillo, Arturo Ripstein, Paul Leduc, et al. -- Cinema and underdevelopment / Fernando Birri -- The aesthetics of hunger / Glauber Rocha -- For an imperfect cinema / Julio García Espinosa -- Towards a Third Cinema: notes and experiences for the development of a cinema of liberation in the Third World / Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino -- Film makers and the popular government political manifesto / Comité de cine de la unidad popular -- Consciousness of a need / Mario Handler -- Militant cinema : an internal category of Third Cinema / Octavio Getino and Fernando Solanas -- For Colombia 1971 : militancy and cinema / Carlos Alvarez -- The cinema : another face of colonised Québec / Association professionnelle des cinéastes du Québec -- 8 millimeters verus 8 millions / Jaime Humberto Hermosillo, Arturo Ripstein, Paul Leduc, et al. -- Black independent filmmaking : a statement by the Black Audi Film Collective / John Akomfrah -- Resolutions of the Third World Filmmakers meeting / Fernando Birri, Ousmane Sembène, Jorge Silva, et al. -- The Luz e Ação manifesto / Carlos Diegues, Glauber Rocha, et al. -- Problems of form and content in revolutionary cinema / Jorge Sanjinés -- Manifesto of the National Front of Cinematographers / Paul Leduc, Jorge Fons, et al. -- The Algiers charter on African cinema / FEPACI (Fédération panafricaine des cinéastes) -- Declaration of principles and goals of the Nicaraguan Institute of Cinema / Nicaraguan Institute of Cinema -- What is the cinema for us? / Med Hondo -- Naimey manifesto of African filmmakers / FEPACI (Fédération panafricaine des cinéastes) -- Black independent filmmaking : a statement by the Black Audi Film Collective / John Akomfrah -- from The Toronto declaration : no celebration of occupation / John Greyson, Naomi Klein, et al. -- FeCAViP manifesto / Federation of Caribbean Audiovisual Professionals -- Final communique of the First Frontline Film Festival and Workshop / SADCC (South African Development Coordination Conference) -- Pocha manifesto #I / Sandra Peña-Sarmiento -- Poor cinema manifesto / Humberto Solás -- Jollywood manifesto / Ciné Institute -- The Toronto declaration : no celebration of occupation / John Greyson, Naomi Klein, et al. -- Dirty diaries manifesto / Woman's place in photoplay production / Mia Engberg -- Hands off love / Maxime Alexandre, Louis Aragon, et al. -- The perfect filmic appositeness of Maria Montez / Jack Smith -- On Film no. 4 (In taking the bottoms of 365 saints of our time) / Yoko Ono -- Statement / Kenneth Anger -- Wet Dream Film Festival manifesto / S.E.L.F. (Sexual Egalitarianism and Libertarian Fraternity) -- Women's cinema as counter-cinema / Claire Johnston -- Manifesto for a non-sexist cinema / FECIP (Fédération européenne du cinéme progressiste) -- Womanifesto / Feminists in the Media -- Visual pleasure and narrative cinema / Laura Mulvey -- An egret in the porno swamp : notes of sex in the cinema / Vilgot Sjöman -- For the self-expression of the Arab woman / Heiny Srour, Salma Baccar, and Magda Wassef -- Manifesto of the Women Filmmakers / Verband der Filmarbeiterinnen -- Wimmin's Fire Brigade / Wimmin's Fire Brigade -- Thoughts on women's cinema : eating words, voicing struggles / Yvonne Rainer -- The post porn modernist manifesto / Annie Sprinkle, Veronica Vera, et al. -- Statement of African women professionals of cinema, television and video / FEPACI (Fédération panafricaine des cinéastes) -- Puzzy power manifesto: thoughts on women and pornography / Vibeke Windeløv, Lene Børglum, et al. -- Cinema with tits / Icíar Bollaín -- My porn manifesto / Ovidie -- No more Mr. Nice Gay: a manifesto / Todd Verow -- Barefoot filmmaking manifesto / Sally Potter -- Dirty diaries manifesto / Mia Engberg -- Full frontal manifesto / Code to govern the making of talking, synchronized and silent motion pictures (Motion Picture Production Code) / Steven Soderbergh -- Red films: Soviets spreading doctrine in U.S. theatres / William Randolph Hearst -- Statement of principles / Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals -- Screen guide for Americans / Ayn Rand -- White elephant art vs. termite art / Manny Farber -- Super fly: a summary of objections by the Kuumba Workshop / Kuumba Workshop -- Full frontal manifesto / Steven Soderbergh -- China Independent Film Festival manifesto : Shamans * Animals / Towards a social cinema / by several documentry filmmakers who participated and also who did not participate in the festival -- from First principles of documentary / John Grierson -- Manifesto on the documentary film / Oswell Blakeston -- Declaration of the Group of Thirty / Jean Painlevé, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Alain Resnais, et al. -- Initial statement of the Newsreel / New York Newsreel -- Nowsreel, or the potentialities of a political cinema / Robert Kramer, New York Newsreel -- Documentary filmmakers make their case / Bohdan Kosiński, Krzysztof Kieślowski, and Tomasz Zygadło -- The Asian Filmmakers at Yamagato YIDFF manifesto / Kidlat Tahimik, Stephen Teo, et al. -- Minnesota declaration : truth and fact in documentary cinema / Werner Herzog -- Defocus manifesto / Lars von Trier -- Kill the documentary as we know it / Jill Godmilow -- Ethnographic Cinema (EC) : a manifesto / Jay Ruby -- Reality cinema manifesto / Vitaly Manskiy -- Documentary manifesto / Albert Maysles -- China Independent Film Festival manifesto : Shamans * Animals / by several documentry filmmakers who participated and also who did not participate in the festival -- On the art of cinema / Capture the film! hints on the use of, out of the use of, proletarian film propaganda / Kim Jong-il -- The Legion of Decency pledge / Archbishop John McNicholas -- Creative film / Joseph Goebbels -- Vigilanti cura : on motion pictures / Pope Pius XI -- Four cardinal points of A revolução de Maio / António Lopes Ribeiro -- from On the art of cinema / Kim Jong-il -- Film festival form: a manifesto / A new source of history : the creation of a depository for historical cinematography / Mark Cousins -- The film prayer / A.P. Hollis -- The Film Society / Iris Barry -- Filmliga manifesto / Joris Ivens, Henrik Scholte, men'no Ter Bbaak, et al. -- Statement of purposes / Amos Vogel, Cinema 16 -- The importance of film archives / Ernest Lindgren -- A plea for a Canadian film archive / Hye Bossin -- Open letter to film-makers of the world / Jonas Mekas -- A declaration from the Committee for the Defense of La Cinémathèque française / Committee for the Defense of La Cinémathèque française -- Filmmakers versus the Museum of Modern Art / Hollis Frampton, Ken Jacobs, and Michael Snow -- Anthology Film Archives manifesto / P. Adams Sitney -- Toward an ethnographic film archive / Alan Lomax -- Brooklyn Babylon Cinema manifesto / Scott Miller Berry and Stephen Kent Jusick -- Don't throw film away : the FIAF 70th anniversary manifesto / Hisashi Okajima and La fédération internationale des archives du film Manifesto Working Group -- The Lindgren manifesto : the film curator of the future / Paolo Cherchi Usai -- Film festival form: a manifesto / Mark Cousins -- Amalfi manifesto / A statement on sound / Michelangelo Antonioni, Bernardo Bertolucci, Pier Paolo Pasolini, et al. -- A rejection of the talkies / Charlie Chaplin -- A dialogue on sound : a manifesto / Basil Wright and B. Vivian Braun -- Amalfi manifesto / Michelangelo Antonioni, Bernardo Bertolucci, Pier Paolo Pasolini, et al. -- Digital dekalogo : a manifesto for a filmless Philippines / Culture : intercom and expanded cinema: a proposal and manifesto / Khavn de la Cruz -- The digital revolution and the future cinema / Samira Makhmalbaf -- The pluginmanifesto / Ana Kronschnabl -- Digital dekalogo : a manifesto for a filmless Philippines / Khavn de la Cruz -- What is a manifesto film? The birth of the sixth art / Jia Zhangke -- The birth of a new avant garde : La caméra-stylo / Alexandre Astruc -- Appendix. Preface to film / Raymond Williams -- The snakeskin / Ingmar Bergman -- Manifesto / Roberto Rossellini, Bernardo Bertolucci, Tinto Brass, et al. -- Manifesto on the release of La chinoise / Jean-Luc Godard -- Direct action cinema manifesto / Rob Nilsson -- Remodernist film manifesto / Jesse Richards -- The age of amateur cinema will return / Jia Zhangke -- Appendix. What is a manifesto film?
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