😭 Thank you for saying this. I've spent most of my career ashamed of the fact that I am a maximalist filmmaker (connected to my, until recently, undiagnosed ADHD). I admired and envied the minimalist masters (like kogonada) but knew I could never have the confidence to do it.🧵
😭 Thank you for saying this. I've spent most of my career ashamed of the fact that I am a maximalist filmmaker (connected to my, until recently, undiagnosed ADHD). I admired and envied the minimalist masters (like kogonada) but knew I could never have the confidence to do it.🧵
So much discussion around "important" art is usually focused on minimalism/restraint, subtly/nuance. But I'm now realizing there is a place for work like ours, especially in a world where there is too much to process, maybe maximalist art is essential to meeting this moment.
Often, artistic expression requires minimalism. But that approach can also lead to essentializing, marginalizing, & excluding for the sake of making the art "clean", but to the detriment of whatever/whoever gets cut out. It feels like analyzing data with an incomplete dataset.
@dunkwun @BilgeEbiri There is no shame in maximalist filmmaking. Like everything else, when carefully crafted, it can be masterful and transcendent. Your style is a breath of fresh air and I maintain that any upcoming Daniels movie should be as anticipated as the next Spielberg or any other great
@dunkwun "Mad Men Syndrome" which also ruined the final seasons of Breaking Bad.