Noah Buschel – Tested & Complete

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To understand Buschel's filmmaking is to understand his deeply felt artistic manifesto: for him, story is not the primary objective. In a 2009 statement for the Sundance Film Festival, he cut straight to the heart of his artistic philosophy: "I don't understand when indie movies became synonymous with storytelling," he wrote. "When did this extreme emphasis on narrative take place? As if a movie doesn’t lend itself equally well to being a poem or a painting." For Buschel, the obsession with plot is "the homogenization and dumbing down of film," a process that leaves no room for "breathing, morphing, strangeness, or wildness." He sees his own films as portraits or haiku ballads rather than plot-driven machines. noah buschel

Buschel’s work is best understood through his ability to inhabit familiar genres—the sports drama, the detective noir, the romantic comedy—only to hollow them out and fill them with poetic stillness. Bringing Rain (2003) This public link is valid for 7 days