filmist

English

Etymology

film +‎ -ist

Noun

filmist (plural filmists)

1. A filmmaker.
   • 1995, Gregory Battcock, Minimal Art: A Critical Anthology, page 197:

     Painters, composers, writers, choreographers, and even filmists are becoming less contentious. They are not concerned about attributing values to things. Their presentation of things is direct, without exterior significance.

2. One who watches or studies films.
   • 2000, Adams P. Sitney, Film Culture Reader, page 376:

     Devoted filmists are still jealous of the medium they admire, especially jealous because, even after films assumed a secure place as a medium of human expression, the arrival of the soundtrack made words into a major element of film, […]

   • 2009, Mary Banks Gregerson, The Cinematic Mirror for Psychology and Life Coaching, page 2:

     Using special guidelines outlined within this introduction, filmists relax, focus, and afterward discuss with others their reactions to magnify the value of film viewing.