@failureonlysubject.bsky.socialWhen does a camera following a woman become a weapon tracking a target?
A few thoughts on Ross McElwee’s Sherman’s March and how one camera movement can embody a whole film’s ideas about male desire and control.
#ShermansMarch #RossMcElwee #FilmAnalysis #DocumentaryFilm #DavidShields
@failureonlysubject.bsky.socialWhat if going to Abilene wasn’t actually a mistake?
A reading of Ella Langley’s Choosin’ Texas as self-sabotage: creating the very circumstances that make the thing you fear happen.
#EllaLangley #ChoosinTexas #MusicAnalysis #Songwriting #DavidShields #CMAs
@failureonlysubject.bsky.socialTHE TROUBLE WITH MEN
Three filmmakers try to save a collapsing movie about “reality.” Instead, the collapse becomes the movie.
Official poster reveal for my forthcoming film The Trouble With Men. Trailer coming soon.
#TheTroubleWithMen #DavidShields #IndependentFilm #DocumentaryFilm #Film
@failureonlysubject.bsky.socialWhy does a tilted head read as vulnerability?
From Elizabeth Holmes’s lateral head flexion to exposed jugulars—and finally to the vulnerability required by self-reflexive art.
It’s all connected.
#ElizabethHolmes #NathanFielder #YouCanSeeEverything #FilmAnalysis #DavidShields
@failureonlysubject.bsky.socialMusic samples. Art appropriates. Why should writing be different?
Stephen Colbert and me on borrowing, originality, and Reality Hunger.
@failureonlysubject.bsky.socialEven the opening credits of McCabe & Mrs. Miller seem to be making an argument: tiny human names projected onto an enormous world, while light keeps slipping through everything.
More thoughts on Robert Altman.
#RobertAltman #FilmAnalysis #CriterionCollection #DavidShields