This interview is bonkers. Despite the challenges, Ducournau does an incredible job dropping knowledge and pushing it forward. Can’t wait to watch ALL her movies…
French filmmaker Julia Ducournau wins Palme D’Or
She continued, in French, to explain she had watched awards ceremonies from a young age and “was sure that all winners must be perfect because they were on this stage. Tonight I am on this stage and I know my movie is not perfect, but I don’t think any film is perfect in the eyes of the person who made it, some may even say it’s monstrous.” She concluded that the prize would hopefully recognize “a world that has a need to be more and more fluid.”
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i wrote a thing for salty. so glad that’s over.
"I mean, yeah. Making movies is hard. It just is. It’s really hard. I think it’s hard for everyone, and I think it’s hard even when everything works out. Actually, last night we had our first screening since Sundance, and there were a handful of directors in the audience: Miranda July, Katie Aselton. And we were talking and just saying, “It’s fucking hard.” There are a lot of pieces to put together, and when you invite people to the table to make it with you, there are a lot of voices and energies and emotions. As the director, there really isn’t anyone who takes care of you. A lot of your energy is spent taking care of others. And that is really demanding and exhausting. Sometimes you just want to be held, and there isn’t anyone to hold you."
— Janicza Bravo in a great interview on her film Zola
“We don’t want to be pandered to, infantilized, castrated, and turned into helpless victims. But more than that … they are scared of losing their freedom and individuality. They don’t want to speak on your diversity panel, listen to white liberals on instagram crying about their privilege, or placate corporate America with a black square on a social media profile. They are scared of that most American concept of pursuing their own happiness and setting forth their own unique voice. It’s difficult to do that when all people want is a performance of what they think all black people must be feeling.”
incredible interview
This is a fascinating look at the economic and social divides throughout America. It’s a great read and worth considering how we live and why we live this way.
(Source: Spotify)
i love jia
this is v. good
“It was worthwhile, I told myself, just trying to see clearly, even if it took me years to understand what I was trying to see.”
“The result is a sort of revision of Joan Didion’s “We tell ourselves stories in order to live” for the late-capitalist horror show that is the twenty-first century.”
But with every single essay I had a question, and then I read everything I possibly could to figure out how to answer that question, or if I could answer that question at all. I knew I was done with each essay when I felt like I had gotten somewhere new. I rely a lot on the feeling that something’s been shifted. Like there’s a little more air or a little more solidity or whatever, the feeling that writing has done something to the subject in my head.
Tumblr fam, I made a movie! You can watch it! Please do :D
Jan. 1, 2019
It’s a new year! Which means, honestly, very little.
That said, I’m still here, writing something in a tumblr post that three people, maybe four, will read. But, it’s not for you, it’s for me.
I started morning pages in early 2018 and I’m still doing them.
Mostly, I write about pining after girls. I write about being lonely and wanting a girlfriend.
I also write about random stressors and bouts of positive news. I write about where I am. In 2018 that was a lot of places. New York, LA, Thailand, Hilton Head, Madison, Indiana, Spain, France, London, Amsterdam, the Catskills. And probably some other places that clearly left a mark.
I write about my work and believing in myself and not believing in myself.
But, mostly I write about girls. Lately just one girl. But that will evolve and go away and there will be other girls, new girls, and probably some reminders of old girls.
I think for 2019, I’m going to try and just write about me. Not about them so much. More about the things I see in myself. The existing things and the stuff I want to see. I’ll project onto myself, not onto her/them.
Let’s see how that goes.
