Review originally published at Awards Circuit during the Sundance Film Festival.
Kill Your Darlings is a perfect example of how one can tell a familiar story in a unique, fascinating way. Many are familiar with the Beats generation, but the way debut director Johnathan Krokidas and co-writer Austin Bunn see it you haven’t seen the definitive version of the tale till you see their film. Kill Your Darlings is a fascinating sojourn into the origin story of the Beats, kind of like The Avengers: Beats Edition set in the backdrop of the suffocating rigidity of 1944 Columbia University with a sharp script filled with an incredible social commentary. In short, it’s one of the best films I’ve seen so far at Sundance.
Can you make an abstract idea into a story? This was something posed to my production class this past week in an effort to understand the process of visualizing/externalizing concepts. As filmmakers, we often take the smallest of ideas and turn them into visual stories. I partnered up with one of my classmates to shoot 3 photos that were supposed to convey an abstract emotion in a sequence. Check the photos and see if you can guess what we were going for.