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Writer/director Benjamin Dickinson says the film came from "me seeing parallels between the Brooklyn creative class and post-war Italians as I know them through the films of Antonioni and Fellini." When asked to explain Dickinson says in films like the trilogy of early '60s Antonioni movies there are disparate disciplines experiencing a cultural shift as they combine and collide. In L'Eclisee it's banking and architecture which causes anxiety in young beautiful Italians feeling abandoned by society as they go through this evolution.
Dickinson saw the same disconnect in young people in Brooklyn as the borough was rebranded and gentrified. The people Dickinson saw working in advertising, technology and fashion had much in common with the hedonistic, lost characters populating Antonioni's trilogy.
There were also echoes for Dickinson with Fellini's La Dolce Vita, where the great Italian director's characters are obsessed with celebrity and fame. Indeed the word "paparazzi" comes from a character in La Dolce Vita, a photographer named "Paparazzo.
Dickinson's gadfly Brooklyn-ites are taking photos too, just of themselves, with a selfie culture that embraces the glorification of self-promotion.
These similarities, and the fuel of a painful failed relationship, laid the groundwork for Creative Control.
Dickinson saw the same disconnect in young people in Brooklyn as the borough was rebranded and gentrified. The people Dickinson saw working in advertising, technology and fashion had much in common with the hedonistic, lost characters populating Antonioni's trilogy.
There were also echoes for Dickinson with Fellini's La Dolce Vita, where the great Italian director's characters are obsessed with celebrity and fame. Indeed the word "paparazzi" comes from a character in La Dolce Vita, a photographer named "Paparazzo.
Dickinson's gadfly Brooklyn-ites are taking photos too, just of themselves, with a selfie culture that embraces the glorification of self-promotion.
These similarities, and the fuel of a painful failed relationship, laid the groundwork for Creative Control.
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