Beyond the Bolex

Beyond the Bolex

21st TDF: International Premiere

A young director digs into the family archive and discovers a legacy of a wider scope, when she realizes that her great-grandfather was the one who invented the Bolex camera: a light and versatile machine that changed the way in which films were made. A fascinating journey in the genealogy of avant-garde and mainstream cinema alike, through its technologies and, mostly, through its people who insisted that democratizing the medium is a genuinely revolutionary act.

Screening Schedule

No physical screenings scheduled.


Direction: Alyssa Bolsey
Script: Alyssa Bolsey, Tchavdar Georgiev
Cinematography: Camilo Lara Jr., Joseph Areddy
Editing: Carlos David Rivera, Alyssa Bolsey, Julie Janata, Vincent Pluss
Sound: Xavier Lavorel, Souheil Al-Mallah
Music: Corey Wallace
Actors: Wim Wenders, Bruce Brown, Jonas Mekas
Production: Sea Owl Productions LLC, Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion, AKKA Films
Producers: Alyssa Bolsey, Camilo Lara Jr., Werner Schweizer, Nicolas Wadimoff
Co-production: Radio Télévision Suisse, ARTE, SRG SSR, Cinémathèque Suisse
Co-producers: Irène Challand, Gaspard Lamunière, Heike letter, Michèle Legin, Sven Wälti, Frédéric Maire
Executive producer: Sarah George, Diana Holtzberg
Narration: Jacques Bolsey
Format: DCP
Color: Color/B&W
Production Country: USA, Switzerland
Production Year: 2018
Duration: 95'
Contact: East Village Entertainment, diana@eastvillageentertainment.com

Alyssa Bolsey

Filmography

2004 Wild Horses (short)
2011 Surge Left (short)
2018 Beyond the Bolex