Radu Jude Discusses How Andy Warhol Film Began as a ‘Joke,’ Says Filmmakers Need to Be ‘Serious About TikTok’
variety.comRafa Sales Ross Guest Contributor Romanian director Radu Jude thinks it’s time for filmmakers to start taking TikTok seriously.
During an in-conversation event at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, Jude pulled out his smartphone and showed a series of TikToks to the audience, saying, “To me, TikTok is like the beginning of cinema.
It’s like Lumiére. Filmmakers are in trouble because this is ahead of us. If you are serious about filmmaking, you have to be serious about [TikTok].” This conclusion came after IDFA’s artistic director Orwa Nyrabia, who moderated the conversation, highlighted the connecting threads within Jude’s oeuvre.
To this, Jude said some artists are “very conscious” about their bodies of work and there are those who “make films without thinking about what connects them, and I feel I belong to this [group].” “It’s greediness.
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