This is Not a Film is not a film. Yet it might be the greatest example of self-expression in the history of cinema.
This isn't movie-making as commerce or art. It has nothing to do with ambition, competitiveness, prestige. This is cinema as freedom.
Was the garbage-collector given a script? Was that a trained iguana? Who knows? Does it matter?
This - after decades of theory rammed down willing and unwilling throats - is the truest manifestation of director as author.
If we could tell a film, then why make a film? And if you can't stop saying 'cut', is there any point in pretending that this is not...but it can't be, so it isn't.
Loaded on a pen drive, smuggled out of the country in a birthday cake. In its safe passage, something larger than the film itself was saved. This is why cinema has existed all this while, to see this single effort through to an audience.
And it isn't even a film.
This isn't movie-making as commerce or art. It has nothing to do with ambition, competitiveness, prestige. This is cinema as freedom.
Was the garbage-collector given a script? Was that a trained iguana? Who knows? Does it matter?
This - after decades of theory rammed down willing and unwilling throats - is the truest manifestation of director as author.
If we could tell a film, then why make a film? And if you can't stop saying 'cut', is there any point in pretending that this is not...but it can't be, so it isn't.
Loaded on a pen drive, smuggled out of the country in a birthday cake. In its safe passage, something larger than the film itself was saved. This is why cinema has existed all this while, to see this single effort through to an audience.
And it isn't even a film.
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