Beyond the Bolex

/10

1h 35mDocumentary

Filmmaker Alyssa Bolsey stumbles on a treasure trove of vintage cameras, old film reels, fading photos, technical drawings and boxes of documents that belonged to her great-grandfather Jacques Bolsey. Among the many boxes, she spots an old movie camera with the word "Bolex" embossed on its side and a dangling tag with the date, "1927." Entranced, she embarks on a journey to reveal how Jacques aimed to disrupt the early film industry with a motion picture camera for the masses.Filmmaker Alyssa Bolsey stumbles on a treasure trove of vintage cameras, old film reels, fading photos, technical drawings and boxes of documents that belonged to her great-grandfather Jacques Bolsey. Among the many boxes, she... Read more

Starring Jacques Bolsey, Wim Wenders, Jonas Mekas, Barbara Hammer, Alyssa Bolsey, Maynard Kaasa, Dave Alex Riddett, Gerard Malanga, David Kiehn, Collin Hanney

Watch "Beyond the Bolex" on Kanopy released in 2018. It's a documentary movie, and has a rating of 9 out of 10 from Imdb which is very high for this kind of movie.