For this year's group exhibit, we tasked our designers to identify a source of inspiration and create something original in its wake. In anticipation of The Knockoff Show, we will share artists's whose work has reverberated for generations in beautifully unexpected ways. RSVP to the May 18th opening reception here.
Wong Kar-wai doesn’t follow the rules. No storyboards, no rehearsals, no fleshed out scripts. This intense level of improvisation compels the casts of his dreamy, nonlinear films to rely on their instincts to mold a given scene, the way a bird builds a nest. It’s this reverence towards intuition which embeds his films with emotional truth, cutting to the core of human experience through the reflex behaviors we’re conditioned out of past infancy.
A darling of the second wave, Kar-wai got his start as a screenwriter before pivoting into directing. The results of his fly by the seat of your pants approach, combined with a historically dogged resolve (he shot 30 hours of unused footage for In the Mood For Love) has won him the admiration of cinefiles everywhere. His filmography is a striking, sometimes loopy, heart-pounding testament to what gold can be spun from trusting your gut.
Image Credits:
In the Mood for Love, Wong Kar-wai, 2000
Chungking Express, Wong Kar-wai, 1994
Happy Together, Wong Kar-wai 1997
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MAY 18 | 6-9 PM
TRACES OF
If we could we dream in the style of Wong Kar-wai or these three auteurs...
Barry Jenkins
Famed arbiter of the triumphant coalescence of blues and emotional punch that is Moonlight.
Sofia Coppola
Coppola's distinct nuanced minimalism won her an oscar for Lost in Translation (she thanks Wong Kar-wai for his inspiration in her acceptance speech).
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Thai director known for his lyrical renders of the quotidian in his films.