"I love their kind of anarchistic tendencies and their kind of sense of freedom, and the idea that they just have this piece of wood with wheels and they go all over the city. They're non-binary, and they don't like authority. And I think it's beautiful too, watching them. They're just weird. And I love that a lot of these different techniques and tricks came from breaking into abandoned swimming pools in Southern California, which is so J.G. Ballard to me. It's so apocalyptic."
"The 72-year-old auteur's ravenous study of arts and culture and disregard for traditional narrative pacing have given us some of the most distinct movies in the history of American cinema. His filmography is a collage as much as anything else, as Jarmusch's gaze frequently shifts between his myriad interests - including punk rock, modernist poetry, hip-hop, Eastern philosophy, Westerns, Yasujirō Ozu, vampires, and any other art that he happens to be consuming that day."
Jim Jarmusch admires skateboarders for their anarchistic tendencies, nonconformity, and improvisational mobility, linking their tricks to abandoned Southern California pools and an apocalyptic aesthetic. The 72-year-old filmmaker combines a ravenous study of arts and culture with a disregard for conventional narrative pacing to create distinct American films. His filmography functions as a collage, shifting among punk rock, modernist poetry, hip-hop, Eastern philosophy, Westerns, Yasujirō Ozu, and vampires. Conversations with him reveal a mind that moves fluidly between topics, mirroring the way his films drift among seemingly unconnected events before coalescing into a larger, harmonious whole. His latest film, Father Mother Sister Brother, is a triptych set in New Jersey, Dublin, and Paris about families navigating parental aging, populated by eclectic motifs and frequent collaborators.
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