“Some Random Behind-The-Scenes Details About GOBY”:
~ I filmed this while we were house/dog-sitting for some friends for a month in Washington. Still can’t believe we were able to do it. They had an espresso machine and everything.
~ I shot this on my iPhone using an app called FilmicPro. Definitely recommend it for anyone looking to get into filmmaking that don’t have all the fancy video equipment but do have a phone.
~ I dialed in the film’s look/texture…
2022 releases titled “The ____man” where a gruff-talking hero who lost his family as a kid bases his entire personality on a nocturnal animal and “being vengeance” while spending the day hiding his identity and the night “haunting” his enemies.
Apichatpong has always been a glaring blind spot for me.
I’ve known about him for years now—even before I started exploring beyond American cinema—and alway knew I would love his films, but it’s still taken a long time to start that journey. I know a lot about him, listened to lot of his interviews, really resonate with his whole philosophy. But I just never took the plunge.
A lot of that is that I’ve had the hardest time finding his…
Decidedly more realist than surrealist at its core than I expected from the premise despite the dreamy stylistic flourishes—which was maybe disappointing for me—but also more tragic (though not sure if exactly “cynical”) than I feared it would be from its romantic beginning—which was very relieving for me having come in not really knowing anything about it.
Definitely made its way into the “movies i can’t believe exist but i’m so glad they do” canon.👍🏼
(Still probably gonna add it to some of my surrealism list just for the concept itself and the way it was portrayed stylistically.)
lynch:
what does mean? i don’t think it really means anything, in the way people say something means something, you know, umm, because a meaning is a thing that—
everyone (yelling through cupped hands):
IT MEANS YOU WERE SCARED OF PARENTHOOD, MARRIAGE, AND THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, DAVID
