“The Magic Beam” is a film essay woven together from newsreels and documentary material from different decades, fragments of hundreds of non-fiction and fiction Soviet films of the 1910s-1960s.
Vladimir Lenin
Self (archive footage)
Sergei Eisenstein
Eduard Tisse
Boris Babochkin
Sergey Vasilev
Georgi Vasilyev
Ilya Trauberg
Grigori Kozintsev
Vsevolod Pudovkin
Fridrikh Ermler
Maxim Gorky
Yuli Raizman
The Summers of It - Chapter Two: It Ends
2019
The Curious Birth of Benjamin Button
2009
The Skywalker Legacy
2020
The Class of ‘92
2013
Making "The Matrix"
1999
Directed by John Ford
1971
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Hawkeye
2022
Ex Libris: The New York Public Library
2017
Naqoyqatsi
2002
Being James Bond
2021
Room 237
2012
Seduced and Abandoned
The Godfather Family: A Look Inside
1990
Sherman's March
1985
Rich Hill
2014
My Mom Jayne
2025
Attack of the Hollywood Clichés!
Everything or Nothing
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
2000
Fuck
2006