filmmaking

I make found footage films. Low-budget, weird, and probably filmed in a mall or some random street. But if I had unlimited money and the patience of a saint, I’d probably be trying to direct like Stanley Kubrick or Wes Anderson.

Kubrick was obsessed with details—dude made people do 100 takes just to blink right. Wes Anderson, on the other hand, treats every frame like a painting, with pastel colors and characters who talk like they’re in a play. Both have insane levels of control, but in completely different ways. Meanwhile, I’m over here making shaky cam footage with unexpected plot twists.

But that’s the thing—found footage is kind of the opposite of those guys. No perfect symmetry, no carefully planned one-point perspective, just chaos. And yet, I kinda love the idea of blending styles. Imagine a found footage film with Kubrick-level psychological tension or Anderson’s quirky storytelling. A shaky, handheld shot, but somehow, it’s still got that aesthetic framing? Sounds cursed, but also kinda cool.

Maybe I’ll try it. Maybe I won’t. Maybe I’ll just keep running around with a camera until something works. Either way, it’s all filmmaking.

What do you think? Could Kubrick and Anderson ever work in a found footage style, or would they lose their minds?