British Cinema is one of the most vital national cinemas in the world. Both documentary and dramatic cinema forms are ever more understood as two sides of the same cloth in the development of British filmmaking.  By its very technological nature (recording what is before the camera with a mechanical device), cinema seeks realism (closeness to reality) and by its very human-centered and authored creative artistic process it seeks and interprets and intensifies the deeper nature of human and natural existence itself.  British cinema has always been interested in the interaction of creativity and the real.