Rob Stone
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780231165532
- eISBN:
- 9780231850407
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231165532.003.0006
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This chapter constructs a Cubist portrait of the cinema of Richard Linklater, with each film seen as a fragment, and all the fragments resulting in inevitable incompletion. Not counting all the ...
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This chapter constructs a Cubist portrait of the cinema of Richard Linklater, with each film seen as a fragment, and all the fragments resulting in inevitable incompletion. Not counting all the pieces of work that he will go on to make, this portrait still lacks four vital fragments: a short documentary on the opportunity for creation and evolution provided by Ground Zero in post-9/11 New York that is Live from Shiva's Dance Floor (2003), a buoyant pilot for a sunken HBO series about minimum wage earners entitled $5.15/Hr (2004), the extrapolation of a sports metaphor into philosophy that is the documentary Inning by Inning: A Portrait of a Coach (2008), and the project being filmed a few scenes every year known as Boyhood (2014). These fragments appear and disappear in the spaces between better-known projects, offering sketches, digressions, and reaffirmations of themes and aesthetics. Although little known, they are all dialogic works that point to interwoven lines of political and philosophical enquiry, illustrating and commenting upon American society and its changing values.Less
This chapter constructs a Cubist portrait of the cinema of Richard Linklater, with each film seen as a fragment, and all the fragments resulting in inevitable incompletion. Not counting all the pieces of work that he will go on to make, this portrait still lacks four vital fragments: a short documentary on the opportunity for creation and evolution provided by Ground Zero in post-9/11 New York that is Live from Shiva's Dance Floor (2003), a buoyant pilot for a sunken HBO series about minimum wage earners entitled $5.15/Hr (2004), the extrapolation of a sports metaphor into philosophy that is the documentary Inning by Inning: A Portrait of a Coach (2008), and the project being filmed a few scenes every year known as Boyhood (2014). These fragments appear and disappear in the spaces between better-known projects, offering sketches, digressions, and reaffirmations of themes and aesthetics. Although little known, they are all dialogic works that point to interwoven lines of political and philosophical enquiry, illustrating and commenting upon American society and its changing values.
