What Is Cinema?

2012

What Is Cinema?

Name: What Is Cinema?
Released: 2012-01-01
Duration: 5 min

2012, English. Directed by Michael Almereyda.

Commissioned by Chuck Workman and excerpted in his What is Cinema (2014). Never screened in public.

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Language: English
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Michael AlmereydaDirector

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Released: 1 January 2012
Country: United States of America

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What Is Cinema? runs 5 minutes (0h 5m).

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What Is Cinema? is streaming on Cohen Media in India. (Checked 11 November 2026.)

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Who directed What Is Cinema??

What Is Cinema? (2012) was directed by Michael Almereyda.