Hopper, I’ve realized, was never a painter. He was a director who got stuck in pre-production. Look at his composition: the severe diagonal of the street, the curved glass of the diner acting as a proscenium arch. We, the audience, are the voyeurs on the dark sidewalk. We can’t hear them. The glass is soundproof. Hopper removes diegetic sound the way Robert Bresson removes sentiment—to force us to look at the gesture.
(2012) is a provocative experimental short film directed by James T. Hong and Chen Yin-Ju that functions as a "visualized declaration" of extreme right-wing ideology. Presented as a pseudo-educational documentary from an alternate future, the film is based on the infamous 1978 racist novel The Turner Diaries by William Luther Pierce. Production and Creative Vision the turner film diaries
A demonic voice-over reads chilling passages from the novel, framing the destruction as "salvation". Hopper, I’ve realized, was never a painter