Author Spotlight

Scott MacDonald

Scott MacDonald is the author of the series A Critical Cinema: Interviews with Independent Filmmakers, now in five volumes, as well as seven other books about independent cinema, including, most recently, Adventures of Perception: Cinema as Exploration (2009). He teaches at Hamilton College and Harvard University.

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The Qatsi Trilogy: Celebration and Warning

Cinema is both an educational tool and a vessel for kinetic, avant-garde expression for filmmaker and activist Godfrey Reggio.

By Scott MacDonald

Essays— Dec 11, 2012
Jean Painlevé: Going Beneath the Surface
Probably no substantial dimension of film history has been so thoroughly ignored by American film critics, historians, and theorists as the nature film (or “wildlife film”): those works of cinema that purport to reveal the lives of other species.…

By Scott MacDonald

Essays— Apr 21, 2009