Just try to tirelessly elaborate.

[alexisallen]

His stated debt to "The River," Jean Renoir's film about Indian village life, and his use of music from the films of Satyajit Ray represent both an earnest tribute to those filmmakers and an admission of his own limitations. They were great directors because they extended the capacity of the art form to comprehend the world that exists. He is an

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[woodburner]

God yes.

[aphorisic]

Oh, all right.

[urlgirl]

hear hear

[aphorisic]

thirded.

[russetpomme]

yes, me too, fourthed or whatever. I was surprised to get to the line "Someone needs to write a manifesto" as I was thinking this IS a manifesto.

"But there's a whole group of artists out there who, it's true, aren't doing dark and gritty, aren't going to the camps of Darfur to get their stories about Real LifeTM, who aren't interested in the story of the average man and his bitter life. But so what? Maybe we've been there, done that. Those wells have been explored, drilled, and drained by countless generations of eager college grads desperately seeking validation."

That, right there, is why I opted out of grad school. Thank you for writing this. I could never get settled with the idea that bearing witness to Loss and Grief with a camera should be my definition of art, and that's what school wanted from me. Documentation, not invention (and their definition of Documentation smacked of Exploitation to me).