We present films/lectures on visual/optical perspective.
The field of visual/optical perspective is wide-ranging and includes many subjects in art, science, technology, etc. Our focus shall be on helping the serious researcher become familiar with influential perspective films/videos.
Optical Perspective
A list of films/lectures where visual, optical and/or technical perspective is the primary subject matter.
| Title | Author | Location |
| Perspective Lecture by Kim Veltman (2017). A 45- minute keynote presentation at the Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA) conference in London, at the invitation of, and filmed by, Carl Smith. | Prof. Kim Veltman | Movie is here. |
| Representations of Space in Western Art (1986) | Prof. Ernst Gombrich | Movie is here. |
| The History of Linear Perspective and Foreshortening (2022) | Amuze Art | Movie is here. |
| Leonardo da Vinci (2024) [2 part film] | Ken Burns | PBS TV. |
| Understanding Linear Perspective (2022) | Amuze Art | Movie is here. |
| Two Point Linear Perspective (2022) | Amuze Art | Movie is here. |
| The Day the Universe Changed: Episode 3: Point of View: Scientific Imagination in the Renaissance – contains a salient explanation of (some) ways that Linear Perspective and perspective mapping changed the world; but beware of the confused explanation of ray optics in relation to the human eye and centric/central rays at one particular point in the narrative. | James Burke | PRC website. |
| Discovery of Linear Perspective (short clip from the Art of Renaissance Science given below) | Gary Welz | Movie is here. |
| The Art of Renaissance Science: Galileo and Perspective | Prof. Joseph W. Dauben | Move is here. |
| Mirrors and Virtual Space in Film (or Cinema) (1992) | Roman Gubern | PRC website. |
| Flatland, The Movie (2008) | Ladd Ehlinger | Movie is here. |
| Perspectives et Architecture (1987) | Marc Chaplet | Information is here. |
| De Artificiali Perspectiva, or Anamorphosis (1981) | Stephen Quay | Movie is here. |
| Die Geburt der Perspektive (2012) | Alain Jaubert | Information is here. |
| Powers of Ten (1977) | Eames Office. | Movie is here. |
| Modes of Perception (1976) | Prof. Marshall McLuhan | PRC website. |
| Dynamic Image (1990) | ? | PRC website. |
| Putting You in the Picture | ? | PRC website. |
| Perspective (2007) – Arts Council of England. Films for the Humanities & Sciences; Films Media Group | ? | No further information. |
| La Perspective by Raynaud, Georges. Paris: Fixus Films Alternate title Worldcat: La Perspective: 1. Perspective d’observation, films 1 et 2. Georges Raynaud, … [unsure if film(s) or microfilm(s) copy of book with same title/author]. (1954, 1955) | Georges Raynaud | No further information. |
| A study of children’s spatial and temporal concepts by New Haven Yale Film B1181 (1971) | Donald Lee Massey | Yale Film Archive. |
| Secret Knowledge (2002) | David Hockney | Documentary. See IMDb. |
| The change from visible to invisible: a study of optical transitions; Worldcat notes a film with same title / year by the Office of Naval Research. (1969) | Kirk Wheeler | No further information. |
| Fractals Documentary: The Colors of Infinity (1995) | Arthur C. Clarke | Movie is here. |
| Termespheres: Total Worlds (2005) | Dick Termes | Movie is here. |
| Spherical Thinking (2007) | Dick Termes | Move is here. |
| Brunelleschi’s First Experiments in Perspective | Nigel Konstam | Movie is here. |
| Renaissance Discoveries: Perspective | Ross King | Movie is here. |
| Introduction to Perspective Drawing (1994) | Marshall Vandruf | Movie is here. |
| Galileo and Perspective (2010) | Prof. Joseph W. Dauben | Movie is here. |
| Perspective Drawing in History and Practice (2022) | Peter Nelson | Movie is here. |
| The Maths of Perspective (2021) | Prof. Sarah Hart | Movie is here |
| Perception of Visual Space (2019) | Prof. Colin Blakemore | Movie is here. |
| A Romance of Many [Fractal Dimensions] (2021) | Prof. David Richelson | Movie is here. |
| Duchamp Symposium – Talk on Art/Science and Non-Euclidean Space (2009) | Prof. Linda Henderson | Movie is here. |
| 20 Illusions and Bayesian Theory | Prof. Richard Gregory | Movie is here. |
| The Philosophy behind The Exploratory | Prof. Richard Gregory | Movie is here. |
| Moving Images (2022) | Lenny Lipton | Movie is here. |
| Colour: A Cultural History (2011) | Prof. Will Ayliffe | Movie is here. |
| Development of Visual Concepts (2015) | Shimon Ullman | Movie is here. |
| Fooling the Eye (2023) | Brian Greene and the John Templeton Foundation | Movie is here. |
| James Gibson – Lecture on Ecological Optics (Part 1) | James Gibson | Movie is here. |
| James Gibson – Lecture on Ecological Optics (Part 2) | James Gibson | Movie is here. |
| A Brief History of Photography | Elgin History Museum | Movie is here. |
| The Camera Obscura | The Art of Photography | Movie is here. |
| Machines of Memory | George Eastman Museum | Movie is here. |
| The Metaphysics of Virtual Reality | BluShades | Movie is here. |
| History of Photography (1) | Couto Camera Company | Movie is here. |
| History of Photography (2) | Couto Camera Company | Movie is here. |
| History of Photography (3) | Couto Camera Company | Movie is here. |
| History of Photography (4) | Couto Camera Company | Movie is here. |
| Space as an Image of Time | Rudolf Arnheim | Movie is here. |
| Seeing Pictures and Seeing Things (1) | Neuroscience and Humanities | Movie is here. |
| Seeing Pictures and Seeing Things (2) | Neuroscience and Humanities | Movie is here. |
| Abelardo Morell and the Magic of the Camera Obscura | Abelardo Morell | Movie is here. |
| Representations | Massimo Scolari | Movie is here. |
| Real is Only Half Way | Yale University | Movie is here. |
| The Voice of Drawing (1) | Yale University | Movie is here. |
| The Voice of Drawing (2) | Yale University | Movie is here. |
| Interview with Paul Debevec | Paul Debevec | Movie is here. |
| The Light Stage with Paul Debevec | Paul Debevec | Movie is here. |
| Decoding da Vinci | NOVA | Movie is here. |
| A Day on the Grand Canal with the Emperor of China | David Hockney | Movie is here. |
| David Hockney: Painting and Photography | David Hockney | Movie is here. |
Documentaries
A list of films/lectures that relate to all types/forms of perspective, including: visual, photographic, cinematic, artistic, telescopic, microscopic, classes of perspective, etc.
| Title | Author | Location |
| The Imagineering Story (2019) | Disney | Disney streaming. |
| Side by Side by James Cameron (2012) | James Cameron | Amazon.com |
| Light and Magic (2022) | Industrial Light and Magic. | Disney streaming, |
| The Pixar Story (2007) | Pixar | Disney streaming. |
| Jodorwskys Dune (2013) | Frank Pavich | Amazon.com |
| Stanley Kubrik, A Life in Pictures (2001) | Jan Harlan | Amazon.com |
| Spielberg (2017) | Susan Lacy | Amazon.com |
| BUCKY: A Fuller Future (2017) | Noel B. Murphy | ? |
| Visions of Light (1992) | Arnold Glassman | No further information. |
| David Hockney: A Bigger Picture (2017) | Bruno Wollheim | See Vimeo. |
| The Lost Leonardo (2021) | Andreas Koefoed | No further information. |
| Leonardo Da Vinci (in 3 parts) | BBC | Movie is here. |
| The Life of Leonardo (in 5 parts – 1971) | ? | Movie is here. |
| Light Fantastic (4 parts) | Prof. Simon Schaffer | Movie is here. |
| Optics: The True Nature of Light | Jim AlKhalili | Movie is here. |
| A Brief history of Astronomy | ? | Movie is here. |
| Microscopy: Early History of Microscopy (2014) | Joseph Gall | Movie is here. |
| The Story of Film (15 parts) – 2013 | Marc Cousins | Movie is here. |
| Brian May’s Brief History of 3D (2011) | Brian May | Movie is here. |
| Alfred Stieglitz: The Eloquent Eye | ? | Movie is here. |
| Pablo Picasso – Cubism and More (2003) | ? | Movie is here. |
| Paul Klee Art Documentary | ? | Movie is here. |
| Salvador Dali: The Enigmatic Nature of the Surrealism Genius | ? | Movie is here. |
| Paul Merton’s Weird and Wonderful World of Early Cinema (2015) | Paul Merton | Movie is here. |
| In Search of Moebius (2013) | ? | Movie is here. |
| Virtually Here: The History of Virtual Reality | VR Roundtable | Movie is here. |
| The Story of Virtuality | ? | Movie is here. |
| How Virtual Reality Became a Reality (2021) | ? | Movies is here. |
| Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World (2016) | Werner Herzog | No further information. |
| Man with a Movie Camera (1929) | Dziga Vertov | Movie is here. |
| Future by Design (2006) | Jacque Fresco | Movie is here. |
| Buckminster Fuller – Thinking out Loud (1996) | Buckminster Fuller | Movie is here. |
| This is Marshall McLuhan (1967) | Prof. Marshall McLuhan | Movie is here. |
| Ted Nelson: A Very General Lecture (2 parts) | Prof. Ted Nelson | Movie is here. |
| M. C. Escher Documentary (2013) | Movie is here. | |
| The Campanile Movie (1997) | Paul Debevec | Movie is here. |
| The Future of Man in the Electronic Age (1965) | Marshall McCluhan | Movie is here. |
| History of Photography (2022) | Thomas Alleman | Movie is here. |
| Jaron Lanier – Virtual Reality and AI (2022) | Jaron Lanier | Movie is here. |
| History of Cameras (3 parts) | ? | Movie is here |
| A Photographic History (3 parts) | Philippe Victor Guez | Movie is here. |
| The Ultimate Telescope (2022) | NOVA | No Information |
| Super Telescope (2022) | Hirizon | No Information |
| Mission Control: The Unsung Heroes of Apollo (2017) | ? | No Information |
| China’s Lost Tang Dynasty Murals (2021) | Perspective (Art Channel on Youtube) | Movie is here. |
| The History of Science Fiction | James Cameron | No Information |
| Cinerama – Seven Wonders of the World (1956) | Cinerama | No Information |
| Cinerama – South Seas Adventure (1958) | Cinerama | No Information |
| Cinerama – Windjammer (1958) | Cinerama | No Information |
| IMAX – Extreme Adventure (2018) | IMAX | No Information |
| IMAX – Flight of the Butterflies (2012) | IMAX | No Information |
| IMAX – Space Station | IMAX | No Information |
| IMAX – Hubble | IMAX | No Information |
| IMAX – Volcanoes of the Deep Sea | IMAX | No Information |
| American Experience – Walt Disney (2 parts) | PBS | No Information |
| Donald Coxeter: The Man Who Saved Geometry (1977) | ? | Movie is here. |
| Escher and Coxeter – A Mathematical Conversation | Prof. Sarah Hart | Movie is here. |
| Greek Geometry (2 lecturers) | N.J.Wildberge | Movie is here. |
| Projective Geometry | N.J.Wildberge | Movie is here. |
| Non-Euclidean Geometry | N.J.Wildberge | Movie is here. |
| Ancient Greece and Euclid’s Elements | Earth Planet | Movie is here. |
| The Illusions of Reality and the Basics of Sacred Geometry | Total Consciousness | Movie is here. |
| Pioneers of Photography: The Moving Image (1974) | BBC | Movie is here. |
| Fractals: Hunting the Hidden Dimension | ? | Movie is here. |
| Taxonomy of Illusion | Terence McKenna | Movie is here. |
| High Level Vision | ? | Movie is here. |
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