/lit/ - Literature

>>18560567
if you are going to be a director then it's good to draw from sources beyond film, or else you'll become totally derivative like most aritsts today. i would recommend moby-dick.

>>18560567

What are you reading as far as the technique/craft of filmmaking is concerned?

>>18560567
pimp

>>18560583
>to draw from sources beyond film
Exactly. Good directors watch movies and great ones read. Ill take Moby DIck. Never read it.
>>18560586
Im shooting music videos currently and so far im only working with art hoes with rich daddies who make cheap lo fi moan shit and some indie bands. Will shoot my own shorts in the near future hopefully. Why would i read about something i should just do with my bare hands?

>>18560567
>future movie director

>>18560799
I have a dream.

>>18560808
based

>>18560567
Old computer manuals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlsZoZLlwC8

>>18561672
Watched this vids more than once. Kubrick life was so fucking comfy. Working from his fucking mansion with beautiful family.

>>18560611
>so far im only working with art hoes with rich daddies
do you ever fuck any of them

>>18560611
>Im shooting music videos currently and so far im only working with art hoes with rich daddies who make cheap lo fi moan shit and some indie bands.
Make music videos for the songs that I've never made, anon. Let's strike a partnership.

Listen to Bob Dylan, Cohen, Joni Mitchell.

Read poetry, Kubrick, Antonini, Pasolini among others read poetry.

Read Charles Dickens, Tolstoy…

Good luck anon!

>>18561754
Of course. Im young.
>>18561769
I fear we are from different countries
>>18561829
I like Cohen especially his song Hallelujah.

>>18561901
Check out The Future

>>18560567
Only read continental philosophy. I suggest Husserl, Hegel, and Land to start with.

>>18560567
Neuromancer. I imagine being intense and concise are qualities you’d want to have in music videos. It is also in general extremely influential on the aesthetics of our culture.

>Kubrick: “I don't find any systematic way of reading. It's a terrifying prospect when you realize all the books there are in the world that you're never going to read or that you should read, so I find by just reading at random, that seems like the best approach since there's no systematic way” (A Voix Nue).

He was correct and today it's even truer

>>18560567
Read philosophy and as much of the canon as you can.

>>18562882
There seems generally to be three schools of thought when it comes to the question of "what should I read?" Some authors agree with Kubrick that reading should be unsystematic, namely Faulkner ("Read, read, read. Read everything – trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it...") and Borges (whose recommended reading list contains everything from ancient poetry, to Henry James, to Jack London). The other school of thought (whose most vocal advocate is Harold Bloom) says that only a few books are worth reading, and that life is so short that if you're going to read at all, only read 'the classics' (thus, the Western Canon). Still another school believes that reading is pointless/a detrimental activity.

>>18563509
>Borges (whose recommended reading list contains everything from ancient poetry, to Henry James, to Jack London).
But only certain works from them, not their entire works. Borges was also one of those guys who only read what he enjoyed but he happened to have a good taste so what he enjoyed was all great classics and hidden gems.

Moby Dick aside (that i certainly will read) please post more books filled with symbolisms and hidden meanings. I guess Faulkner has that in his books too?

>>18561672
>4chan computer
bros...

>>18560567
Read some Burroughs, his novels are filled with images

>>18560567
He got Kaczynskied.

>>18560611
Alexander Mackendrick wrote a book about filmmaking, you might read that.

>>18565188
w-what do you mean...

>>18565199
It was a joke about the exploding package, you know, with confetti instead of ball bearings.

>>18565210
Nice one... I just thought you are talking about me...

>>18565213
Oh, I didn't read the post (still haven't).

>>18565277
Fuck it. Based in my opinion.

unironic rec