• Fargo
  • The Banshees of Inisherin
  • The Curse
  • Triangle of Sadness
  • Slacker

absurd realism

strange and inexplicable in the way real life and real people are...

  • Pulp Fiction
  • House
  • Mandy
  • Eraserhead
  • Poor Things

hyperreality in film

films that feel like heightened "copy" of reality--or--a "copy of a copy"--or--a "copy" of a reality that never existed in…

  • Beau Is Afraid
  • Barton Fink
  • After Hours
  • The Truman Show
  • A Serious Man

nightmare comedies

*A PERSONAL, HIGHLY SUBJECTIVE, NON- COMPREHENSIVE "MIXTAPE" LIST (aka I'm not really looking for suggestions)*

One of my favorite genres.…

  • Barbarian
  • Uncut Gems
  • Beau Is Afraid
  • Nope
  • The Souvenir

✨ MODERN CINEMA ✨

Recent films and filmmakers that have really swung for the fences and WENT FOR IT... aka my version of the…

  • Pulse
  • The Happening
  • The Cabin in the Woods
  • Us
  • Leave the World Behind
  • Sorry to Bother You
  • Beau Is Afraid
  • Maniac
  • Poor Things
  • Problemista

modern magical realist hyper-heightened symbolic fable worlds

***A COMPLETELY SUBJECT, PERSONAL LIST based on MY OWN PERSONAL, SUBJECTIVE GUT FEELING of what qualifies***

Aka--"real" worlds that seem…

  • The Big Lebowski
  • Relaxer
  • After Hours
  • Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle
  • The World's End
  • CASSETTE
  • Phantasm
  • Friday the 13th
  • Psycho
  • Ring

inspo for my short film "CASSETTE"

Here’s the links if you wanna ✨ WATCH / LOG ✨

  • Persona
  • Ida
  • Eraserhead
  • Meshes of the Afternoon
  • The Night of the Hunter

mmm monochrome yummy

Tasty B&W vibes.

Anything in B&W that I watch and something about the quality and texture of the image or…

  • roughly an hour before
  • Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
  • 11 x 14
  • It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books
  • Permanent Vacation

inspo for (& similar to) my film ROUGHLY AN HOUR BEFORE

Technically some of these (like 11 x 14) I didn't see until after I filmed my film "roughly an hour…