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A Movie Screen is a Blank Canvas

Written by Jonathan Jacobs

A movie screen is a blank canvas or a tabula rasa if you will. It should be natural and unsurprising that every director has created a film (or several) that is lifeless, or tacky or just plain unwatchable. Given the creative liberty a director enjoys to mould and adapting a script as well as a cadre of actors into virtually anything they deem appropriate, they assuredly enjoy the identical leeway that famous artists from the pre-film era enjoyed. This is why Picasso’s, Rodin’s Matisse’s, and Dali’s (among thousands of others) artworks are not housed in one museum for exhibition. Their artwork is scattered across the world. Assuredly, their best and more notable works are displayed in museums such as the Musee D’Orsee, the Louvre, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, etc. Their less popular works, many of which are misfits and unappealing (any pejorative adjective will suffice) have been disseminated to lesser museums across the globe. It has always shocked me to find the work of famous artists in local art galleries in towns and cities that are renowned for anything but their museums.

This same concept applies to films and their directors. Directors are artists, just of a different appeal, categorization and medium. Directors that generate excellent films often find their work in major cineplexes and theaters across the world. Independent film directors must attend film festivals for acclaim before their work is accepted as mainstream entertainment. While it is not always true that the best directors have the most success or that their films are the most profitable, the big names enjoy mainstream recognition the same way that famous fine artists from centuries past did. I would love to spend an afternoon enjoying Winslow Homer paintings much as I enjoy Jerry Bruckheimer’s action films. Both appeal to me in different ways to be sure, but both are exciting and entertaining for what they are.

I have watched independent films that took my breath away, but failed to be commercially successful. Regrettably, unlike artists from the 15^th to the mid 20^th century, today’s directors will rarely be celebrated as geniuses of their craft posthumously. Instead, in this era of a film a day or a DVD a minute, it is easy to forget those faceless directors who produce masterworks because there is such a vast landscape it is hard to separate the individual trees from the exponentially growing forest. This is the modern artist’s (director’s) Hellerian Catch 22. Many can make movies that should be celebrated as groundbreaking and still remain in the shadows from which they will never emerge. Such is the nature of the film industry. While I could supply a thousand comparisons and analogies between film and art, directors and artists (including painters, sculptors, architects, etc), in my mind a simple and intractable fact is salient: directors are artists with too much noise and commotion to be recognized in the middle of utter chaos.