Music on screen
Composers, filmed by people who had to decide what the music was for.
Obsession
What wanting something too much does to the person doing the wanting.
Mechanisms
Films built like devices, where the structure is carrying the meaning.
Voyages
Going a very long way, and what is left of you at the other end.
Minds and machines
The question of who counts as a person, asked by people who built one.
History, under pressure
Real events, filmed by someone who had to choose what to leave out.
Crime and consequence
Choices made early and paid for slowly.
Walls
Confinement, patience, and the long way out.
Rooms where people think
Chess boards, classrooms and dormitories: the mind as the whole event.
Spectacle
Engineering at a scale that was supposed to be impossible.
Long runs
Series I have followed for long enough to watch them change.
Nothing on the shelf under that name.