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“I always say a film should have a personality. And like a person, if he or she is very popular, I would feel very suspicious. Maybe my good film is not your good film. It’s very subjective. But if I make a film that divides the audience, I feel like that’s a certain level of success. Film should divide people.” - Apichatpong Weerasethakul Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010)

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"It is difficult to be judged, to be reviewed. As a teenager, I remember one casting director who later became a producer. I was in the middle of doing a reading for her and she stopped and said, 'Listen, you are not pretty enough to be an actress. You have to find something else that you wanna do.'" 

- Winona Ryder 

They said the same thing to me about attempting to become a filmmaker satirizing Hollywood itself. 

These days, I am a Cinematic Garbageman. Dreams become true...

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Every time I go to a bar, concert, work (currently on a post-Weinstein project) and of course watching a movie (etc.), I see several scenes that represent the deeply social sexual harassment that has more than simply a surface on top of a “narrative.” In reality and fiction, this occurs for the vast majority of females in general life experience. Many people claim that everything Von Trier makes is an attempt towards chauvinsadist porn “entertainment,” but at the same time that common existence, its social consciousness, is the “subject” and not the “value” of this filmmaking.

I don’t know the guy, maybe he is a douchebag (probably), and is (sub)consciously mirroring his own personal consciousness fucking sociality, creating his characters as critique of his own existence (similar to the recent narcissistic film Mother!, David Bowie’s fascist Thin White Duke, and/or Fellini’s much sexier “Guido” in 8 ½), resulting in pure self-hatred of the existence beyond its own control.

In any case, harassment today continues the massive direction towards assault, and exists on a massive degree depending on the experience and conversion of reality into a narrative. Bjork, who I love as a musician and a stunning actress in this particular project, re-battles with the awareness of Von Trier’s own drug use and potential suicidal psychology. He could have been “acting” or behaving a certain way to “create” the project he “desired,” representing his own destruction. His films are particularly the main subject of the biblical/historical invention of gender, taking control of modern consciousness and pushing the opposition both deeper and further away simultaneously depending on the character watching the screen itself. So the film’s mirror his existence and created the struggle of personal hatred due to cliche sexuality, but at the same time critiques itself, and, ideally, kills itself.

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“We know that under the image revealed there is another which is truer to reality and under this image still another and yet again still another under this last one, right down to the true image of that reality, absolute, mysterious, which no one will ever see or perhaps right down to the decomposition of any image of any reality.” Michelangelo Antonioni is not dead. He just exploded. #michelangeloantonioni #zabriskiepoint #pinkfloyd #egodeath #destructive #narrative #hippie #pop #eating #itself #foucaultian #dissolvation #into #any #thing

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The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction - Walter Benjamin (1936) #worldwide #hollywood #international #fascism #walterbenjamin #actors #humanity #fantasy #reproduction #structural #film #poststructural #realism #brakhage #frampton #psycho #analytic #instagram

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“When you’re working there, there’s not much room for improvisation and low-budget shooting. It’s all well-planned in advance. It’s all machinery … so at first you are overwhelmed by it and your work starts looking maybe ‘American.’ After my first film in Hollywood, I could have been booked out for a year, maintained myself there, got a Green Card, joined the union. But it’s not really my world.“ - Robby Müller #cinematographer #cinematography #robbymüller #downbylaw #jimjarmusch #repoman #alexcox #breakingthewaves #larsvontrier #paristexas #wimwenders #toliveanddieinla #williamfriedkin #hollywood #machine #nondirection #auteurs

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Too “true.” #cinema #semiotic #sex #gillesdeleuze #deleuze #hitchcock #fucking #marx #pregnant #baby #godard

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“For my entire life I have struggled to find money. But the money is really not that important. I knew the second I walked out of the office of those producers all those years ago that I would never shoot a single frame of film if I continued wasting my time with people like that. If you want to make a film, just go and make it. I cannot tell you the number of times I have started shooting a film knowing I did not have the money to finish it…It seems to be the very culture of filmmaking. Money has only two qualities: it is stupid and it is cowardly.” - Werner Herzog Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970) #wernerherzog #herzog #evendwarfsstartedsmall #germannewwave #budget #bullshit #midgets #children #adults #battling #time #growing #revolution

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Three Misanthropes…including me. “I become quite melancholy and deeply grieved to see men behave to each other as they do. Everywhere I find nothing but base flattery, injustice, self-interest, deceit and roguery. I cannot bear it any longer; I’m furious; and my intention is to break with all mankind.” - Moliere #pieterbruegel #bruegel #moliere #molière #themisanthrope #misanthrope #painting #playwright #cinematic #motherfucker