Gideon Bachmann

A behind-the-scenes documentary about the filming of the Federico Fellini film, "Satyricon."

A documentary on Fellini’s lost alternate ending for 8½

A young man gets caught up in criminal activities in order to fulfill his desire for an easy life.

A behind-the-scenes documentary about the filming of the Federico Fellini film, "Satyricon."

A behind-the-scenes documentary about the filming of the Federico Fellini film, "Satyricon."

A verité portrait of Jonas Mekas making his daily rounds, JONAS shows us the underground impresario attending a peace rally, filming in Central Park, typing up notes at the Village Voice and projecting his latest rushes at the Film-Makers' Cooperative. A true New Yorker, Mekas seems to be everywhere at once, always with a Bolex camera slung over his shoulder. In detailing these routines, director Gideon Bachmann comes away with a striking time capsule of a city bent on art.

A journey behind the shooting on the set of Salò, a backstage by Gideon Bachman, recorded during the realization of the torture scenes, enriched by long interviews with actors.

A rare behind-the-scenes view of the exploding New York “underground” in the late sixities, a turbulent time and place that was to change American culture forever. A German TV crew, led by journalist Gideon Bachmann, explores the epicenter of the sixties revolution in art, music, poetry and film and interviews the main players in the “New American Cinema,” that was born on the streets of New York. Against a backdrop of cultural upheaval in all of the arts and growing political agitation against the Vietnam War, Bachman interviews the most prominent figures in “underground film,” including Jonas Mekas, Shirley Clarke, the Kuchar Brothers and Bruce Connor, and visits the most notorious location in the New York art world of the era - Andy Warhol’s Factory - to conduct an interview with the genius of Pop Art himself.

Gideon Bachmann documents the making of Fellini Satyricon

In this previously unseen backstage documentary, Peter Greenaway responds with great generosity to the open-ended questions posed by an off-camera Gideon Bachmann about the process which led to the creation of one his most important films, The Belly of an Architect, giving contemporary audiences an insight into his ideas, the rigour of his reflections and the development of the project.

Behind the scenes footage of Pasolini and crew filming 'Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma'.

A previously unseen behind-the-scenes documentary about one of Liliana Cavani’s most international films.