🎥 I am actively trying to *De-Hollywoodize* myself and the #cinema I experience.
Sure I am not making a generality: There are some amazing past and present movies coming from the #USA...
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🇺🇸 A majority of movies I watched before i was 20 were from the US. This formed my entire relationship to Cinema in terms of formats, expectations, emotions, and culture. So I am now trying to bring this ratio down for the rest of my life.
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Jérémie Zimmermann🎶💗🧀🧉
in reply to Jérémie Zimmermann🎶💗🧀🧉 • • •🥱 While some remarkable indie stuff comes from Hollywood, most its production is *very* homogeneous at a given time in terms of aesthetics, story structures, people making it. I want more diverse aesthetics, cultural background and people!
💥 Some cultural tropes from the USA are almost inevitable, got ingrained in my mind: Most movies contain at least one gun shot. Some contain hundreds, if not thousands, and explosions. Gun saves. "Good guy with a gun" wins. Heroes and cars...
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Jérémie Zimmermann🎶💗🧀🧉
in reply to Jérémie Zimmermann🎶💗🧀🧉 • • •🪖 Even some of the most modest productions get infused by the geopolitical agenda of the USA, and the PR interests of its armies and intelligence agencies: USA always the center of the World, the "good guys", defines "bad guys".
😵💫 This is subtle but extremely powerful. I want to reset my perspectives and World view by adding multiple input, by counter-balancing that force. In past 20years, thanks to #bittorrent🌊 I explored cinema of all places and times:
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Jérémie Zimmermann🎶💗🧀🧉
in reply to Jérémie Zimmermann🎶💗🧀🧉 • • •to explore #Cinema in perpendicular ways, i sometimes search my favourite #bittorrent trackers:
- by directors, exploring entire filmographies (Truffaut, Hitchcock, Murnau, Lang, Melville, Lautner, Godard, Varda, Risi, Pietrangelli, Antonioni, Fellini, Yimou, Gavras, Wilder, Eisenstein, Fulci, Kurosawa, Campion, etc.)
- by name (or through lists) of specific production houses (Hammer, Shaw, Ghibli, Golden Harvest, Cannon, ..)
- by year, for fantastic journeys 1972, 1966, 1984, 1917, etc.