I’m certain that there are more examples of this, but having been seduced by the films of Kubrick , Hitchcock, and Fellini, this was a revelation. Good filmmakers use the camera to tell a story, not to take pretty pictures. 13

Armed with a traditional film background, we faced a dilemma: shed the principles of our training to feed the algorithm's insatiable appetite for content, or hold fast to our ideals and risk missing out. Multiply output for likes and follows, or cultivate vision for something that seemed very distant, unpredictable, and way harder to reach. It was... See more

movies were becoming the flashpoint for the nation’s culture wars and generational conflicts.