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Everyone can be an artist, and anything can be art.

Composer/musican/fine artist/filmmaker.

Favorite films

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Naqoyqatsi 2002

★★★★★ Rewatched 13 Nov 2023

After the Miramax logo and a short title screen ("Miramax Films and Steven Soderbergh Present"), we fade in to a digitally manipulated clip of Bruegel the Elder's 'The (Little) Tower of Babel'. One of the most well known and frequently used paintings in human history has been squashed and stretched to fit the 16:9 aspect ratio, and the color has been removed, leaving a stark, black and white image that has been converted into a 3D model. It has entered,…

Mission to Mars 2000

★★★★★ Rewatched 14 Mar 2025

Still so, so good
Robots 2005

★★★★★ Watched 14 Mar 2025

This was amazing and I can't believe I hadn't seen it sooner. Genuinely one of the most me-coded films I've ever seen.

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio 2022

★★★★★ Watched 17 Nov 2022

I can’t remember the last time I cried so hard during a movie that I got light headed. What a beautiful, life affirming, harrowing work that pushes the limits of film as an art form and animation as a medium.
The Fear 1966

★★★★★ Watched 18 Feb 2024

That ending dance scene was crazy.