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Paul Auster details his relationship with film, his love of collaboration and the influence of Robert Altman and Yasujiro Ozu.

Director Patricio Guzmán discusses his highly acclaimed and very personal documentary Nostalgia for the Light. Guzmán describes his first visit to Chile's Atacama desert, the location which inspired and is central to the film.

After a screening of The Bruce Lacey Experience, a new documentary by Nick Abrahams and Jeremy Deller about the influential, eccentric artist and filmmaker, the directors and Lacey are interviewed at BFI Southbank.

Director Matthew Akers talks about Marina Abramovic´: The Artist is Present, his documentary about the influential Serbian performance artist.

Writer and performer Penny Arcade interviewed at BFI Southbank following a screening of An Englishman in New York, starring John Hurt as the "stately homo of England".

Gavin Butt and Ben Walters introduce their documentary 'This Is Not A Dream' followed by extracts of the extraordinary live interactive performance by Dickie Beau.

Experimental filmmaker Robert Beavers introduces a rare screening of his work at BFI Southbank.

Writer and film curator Antony Todd introduces a David Lynch season at BFI Southbank with a lecture focussing on the director's early career.

Artist and filmmaker Malcolm Le Grice introduces Michael Snow's Wavelength (1967).

Michel Reilhac explores how the emerging concepts of transmedia puts the modern audience back in the position of early film viewers.

Legendary dancer, choreographer and filmmaker Yvonne Rainer discusses her work

As part of the Essential Experiments series, artist/director Stephen Dwoskin introduces 1930s silent film Borderline.

Controversial artist and author Kenneth Anger takes to the BFI stage to discuss his seminal work Rabbit's Moon.

Groundbreaking experimental film-maker Stephen Dwoskin discusses his influential career as part of his BFI retrospective.