What Is Cinema?

What is Cinema? is an attempt to chronicle where the best of cinema might be today and where is will be, or should be tomorrow. Andre Bazin, from whose group of essays the title is borrowed, tried to define this from a critical point of view. This documentary instead looks at the films and filmmakers that, in the opinion of the director, might matter today or tomorrow, narratives, dramatic films, and experimental films that use the cinematic tool kit in ways that Picasso or Frank Lloyd Wright or Chekhov might have used their art form's tools, often breaking the rules, or inventing new ones, asking the audience to look harder, listen more carefully, think about the form of the work as much as the content.