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really enjoyed this video and am foreal sick of seeing white guilt movies... I wonder what it will take to shift this!

11:52 RIP Shelley Duvall

Can I log this on Letterboxd?

I always say, “unless the art inside of you is already killing you, don’t become an artist. It will kill you.”

In 2006, I got the 20th anniversary edition of the Transformers movie for christmas. I remember to this day when the opening credits were rolling, with all the VAs, and the last one mentioned was the name Orson Welles. I instinctly thought that he was a big name actor of all sorts. (I was almost 5, and had little film history knowledge). I loved the movie, Orson, (beside the fact he was portraying a planet), always stole the show despite only just being a voice. I was just a young kid, and he had an impact on me just by his shear voice. However, I was really young, and I just moved on to other stuff that a child would go on to do, like playing hotwheels in the dirt since thats all children really need to worry about. Now being 22, a couple of weeks ago, I wanted to watch the best Transformers movie out there, have some nostalgia cause I grew up watching that film. Being more than 5 years since I really watched it, Orson once again gave me the goosebumps when he would speak. Nowadays, with all the internet access, I finally got around to learning about and somewhat researching Orson Welles all because of his speaking voice. That rabbit hole I stumbled accross is extraordinary. Finding out how much of an important and historical figure he really is for all sorts of medium. Ive spent a greater majority of the last 2 weeks of watching and listening to as much as I can about this man. Many interviews, video essays about Kane, War of the Worlds, so many profound moments in history and he is the center of all of them. This video is THE crown jewel about the enigma that is Orson Welles. It was also pretty heartbreaking to see what talent he had and what could've been if he hadn't been ousted by McCarthyism. It is here where I would like to personally pay my upmost respects to Mr. Orson Welles. Thank you, Orson. Beautiful work, Tensai. Subscribed now.

This is the kind of thing I rewatch as if it was a movie.

Great video im like sad now but great video

Okay at 14:51 I literally commented who it was because I would bother me not knowing who it is, but you made a valid point and I deleted it but … if you are going to talk about someone just do so or don’t speak about them at all, also love your videos so this is just a note

(The below comment is largely the crazed ramblings of a traumatized individual. It may not be fully meaningful, but it ends in a true place.) What so fight pain with more pain? Some avant garde works look very interesting to me but the one that I actually watched lead to me being suicidal for 3 months. Hell, I’m still suicidal. It really ruined me. How am I supposed to get healthy? By watching painful movies? I’m not trying to numb myself. I’m not an idiot. But I’m also not going to praise art unless I know it’s purposeful. I don’t want to be traumatized, but I don’t want to support useless works. I’m scared that watching avant garde works may lead to my death. But I don’t want to be a loser normal person. My experience seems to be that I feel terrible all the time, watch a movie about the emotions I’m feeling, and then I feel even worse because it’s like I have to deal with the trauma of myself and someone else. I don’t feel seen. I feel like someone else is being seen while I get ignored. What am I supposed to do? I don’t want to die and I don’t want to be boring. It’s like I have to choose between being an interesting avant-garde enjoyer and being alive. How it feels to watch this video: (You all think you’re better than the masses. You aren’t. If you were really better than them you would let them in. You’re just like them. Putting up these walls of supposed superior thinking.) I don’t think this video is actually putting up walls. I don’t really know why people enjoy avant garde works though. I think you said you would explain why they do. If I had to guess, it’s because there’s a lot of absurd things that society expects us to consider normal, and it’s nice to see something equally bizarre put on screen. It’s like, if you’re willing to accept these real absurdities, why would these fictional ones be any different? It’s a mirror. I’m afraid of dying. I don’t want to die while I have all this life ahead of me. The avant-garde work I saw made me feel like suicide is the only answer. Is it not understandable why I am averse to the genre? I would love to enjoy these avant garde works, but I also value my health. I think there is a chance that they will destroy me rather than heal me. Does this make me a loser normie? I think not. I’d like to say I enjoy all the right art, but conforming to what avant garde art says should be good isn’t any different to conforming to what popular media says is good. I need to be self-reliant. You’ve piqued my interest in avant-garde films, but I will not be thrown around. I’m sure I will like them, but of course I will not refrain from criticizing them. That is the nature of avant-garde, is it not? Question it all. And really, what is so wrong with taking medicine when you are sick? Each piece of art I experience is an experimental bit of medicine. Some will help, some will harm, and some will do nothing at all. Mistakes validate the effort of trying. They guide you along towards clearer paths. I will watch avant-garde media. Avant-garde media will not change me, but I may choose to allow it to influence me. I will respect well-crafted material even though I owe it nothing and it owes me nothing. The power of self-reliance strikes. As long as I am true to my heart, I am doing the right things.

I'll be the dissenting voice and say that the "nice boat" joke is pretty funny. Maybe because I already know too much about Chris.

''Our enemies are right, our friends are right, it's an awful big country and an awful lot of different kinds of people in it and violence always has been a part of our story'' Orson Welles is right to suggest that if you only judge your country based on the behaviour of the good people in your country and not the brutal and belligerent also, then you fall into a blinkered vision of your own collective effect and universal input on the world, the good people including the bad ones, in all its consequences upon the happiness, health and prosperity of the people whom are victims of that violence. America empowers the good people to be protected from harm, but not all of the time, from its bad, and it empowers as a double-edged sword, all of the bad people to have those same privileges and honours bestowed upon them as their good counterparts.

Gee, I really disliked Climax. Dance/performance art enthusiasts really like telling me "that's the most avant-garde thing you're ever seen" and proceed to showing sad and shallow movie with mid sound design. Sorry honey, that was just 90 minutes of noise and I can feel the same thing when going to a club and that's why you will never see me there unless in heavy depression. It's not even that I dislike performance art in particular, I'm just salty at like three separate theater kids that recommend me (intellectually) boring things. I'll get my revenge one day

38:08 ????????? New??????? Sade was writing about his own life. Kazuo Hara was making documentaries on his wife divorcing him in 1974. Duvert was writing about his sexual deviances in the sixties. Artists have been declaring their entire lives as Performance Art since the sixties. There was art theory written in the 80s about "Life Art." Philosophers have been debating questions of performance and life and art for decades now. C'mon...

Very funny/ly ironic that a video about the Avant-Garde barely features any actual avant-garde films (Throw Away Your Books and Jeanne Dielman being probably the only ones that would fit even a more loose definition of Avant-Garde). There is a very common (silly/naive) mistake being made here: to conflate "Experimental Cinema" with "Avant-Garde Cinema," leading to this whole mess. It's genuinely frustrating to click on a video about avant-garde cinema and see no: Structuralist, Formalist, Minimalist, Dada, Conceptual Cinema-with a noteworthy lack of any Video Art too; can't forget that.

Hi Tensai, ive watched this video of yours multiple times and id like to recommend you a comic (webtoon) that i'd like you to review. Its called purple hyacinth and its a beautiful piece of fiction and id love to see you deconstruct/dive deep into it. It may seem your typical comic that is designated for the female lens but its so so much more than that (trust). anyways i thought of this while watching this video for the fourth time, and i thought you may like it. Purple hyacinth has the typical romance trope of enemies to lovers but the creators do a wonderful job of deconstructing it and giving them so much more depth. Note its main genre is not romance, its a mystery/action/thrilled; romance is merely a subplot. Anyways id really appreciate it, if you gave it a visit. Its currently on hiatus because one of its creators is unwell, and id wish it get more recognition. Purple hyacinth is well crafted piece of art, with beautiful art and music (composed by the creators) accompanied with mostly every chapter. You can read it till chap 20.

You might enjoy our film ZAPPER! (2023)

I had never heard of Chris Chan before this video and ..... yeah okay wow I think I regret this

0:55 the fact that there's "anime" just like that in the trigger warnings hurts me but it's fair, it is one of the medium who's the most apologist of everything else mentioned in the tw except maybe domestic abuse (but even there it depends on what kind) 😭

Marvelous, is all I can say.

They subtitled the osage language in the Brazilian subtitled version of killers.

9:40 i don’t buy it. Atleast not for several generations. And especially for the past 30 years, African Americans have been some of the most pronounced celebrities, actors, musicians, athletes, even disproportionately so. Black people are cool and loved by the vast majority, and we all act like it and idolize them. Idk i just think that unless you are talking about 80-100 years ago we shouldn’t be perpetuating this attitude. I think a lot of it has to do with simple fact that the majority of the US is caucasian. You wouldn’t go to India and be like WTF why are all of their celebrities and politicians Indian?! They must be racist…

when i saw bratz get mentioned i was hoping to see a monster high mention as well cus they were also competing together and also had movies with very progressive themes (i think i recall one that tackled police brutality) and audiences didn't even have to like ask for the level of diversity, it was kinda woven into the stories by default

34:26 WHAT DO YOU MEAN 😭😭😭

I think you are not going deep enough. You still confuses (at least it so seems by examples you gave in this video) experimental/transgressive art with Avantgarde. Are there shared points between the two? Sure. But there is also a key difference. You see, the clips of art examples you used in this video to support your arguments, are all clips of art that tries to subvert and challenges the status quo from the inside, without really leaving the confines of a established narrative (obtuse examples of this is self-awerness in most comedic media nowadays). True Avantguarde imo rejects the whole notion of a art being to be consumed. And it s thus much more abstract and lacks any intention since it's only purpose is to put viewer's/artistis a pleasure that is gained by putting you in a state of focus where you stand on the crossroad junction between controlled imagination and emotional subconsciousness.

9:49

I'm not sure if this'll make any sense, but as a kid I was expected to be a "normal girl" by everyone around me, to the point I expected that myself, but as I grew up, I started to realise I'm just not normal no matter how much I try. I never fit in with my peers, and I came to realise I'm bi as a teen, then I ended up suffering from depression and anxiety, then I realized I'm actually a trans man once I turned 18 and then I got diagnosed with autism at 20 years old. Sometimes I think "wow, I'm really not normal. I'm really what people taught me to view as an outsider from what most people are like. I'm supposed to be a rarity in society" and it feels so surreal, because I never expected to be those things I wasn't supposed to be, and I wonder what it feels like for those who've known me since I was a child, specially for my family, to suddenly see that I'm not the normal little girl they expected me to be. I think that's why I enjoy avant guard so much, because it's as weird as what it feels like to be alive for me. My life has been so confusing ever since I was born, so these pieces of art share those complicated feelings I go through every day with the rest of the world

that rant at 12:08 Is absolutely hilarious.

There is comfort in finding someone else uncomfotable

I've always thought of avante garde as art without concern for reception.

𝐿𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑚𝑒 𝑑𝑜𝑔

my soul has been spoken to, directly

Have you watched Hannah Montana's Guide Under Capitalism? I feel its in communication with this topic and something that should def be watched

I made a short video on my second channel where I elaborate a little bit on my thoughts on the future of cinema as an artform and the injustices that percist on the internet: czcams.com/video/6je0O7uAVg0/video.htmlsi=pOnSRIqkcA0WPgDv

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 the intro had me

This is a pretty good video but I gotta click off to watch the Chris Chan documentary series brb

Always loved Welles and definitely enjoyed this film essay….but the defending spoiled actors in the middle was a bit much for me…some actors come to set with their stardom, most directors have to literally manipulate out of them Shelly Duvall being one of them, I understand that Kubrick was intense but Actually go back and look at the footage…she’s complaining about “Hunks” of hair….literally looks like a bundle of hair you get out while combing…she’s just trying to find excuses to leave set early….she just didn’t have the work drive. Look at the doc with the mindset of a spoiled actor and you’ll see it pop right out of her.

Even if Chris Chan's identity is still debated, I think it would be best to use she/ her pronouns, since that is what she prefers. There have been instances of her where her gender dysphoria has obviously affected her mentally, with her listening to binaural beat videos thinking they would help her transition (which arguably contributed to her spiraling mental state), or attempting self harm in order to transition. She is a terrible person, but I don't think a person's actions determine whether or not they are actually trans when the evidence clearly points to her identifying as female.

This video seems so pointless. Could have been shorter to say the least lol.

Very much giving the first episode of the "new" 'The Twilight Zone' The Comedian. Look it up, if you havent. Its eerily similar.