Being a Human Person

Roy Andersson is a filmmaker with a bizarrely unique style and philosophy in storytelling. His movies are very holistic; with even the most mundane aspects of human life given equal amounts of prominence as being part of the human experience. And this movie, documenting the making of what is supposedly his last (and by far my most favorite Roy Andersson...) film, About Endlessness, is as holistically fitting a work of documentation as I could have wanted.

This movie, more than anything else, was an insightful exhibition into the creative process behind how a scene from a Roy Andersson movie is made... and boy was it not as simple as I thought it to be. There's so much technical prowess in front of the camera as much as there is artistry and vision behind it. Sporting a unique but unorthodox process and having built the perfect workshop for production around said process, Roy Andersson brings to life what he envisions, exactly as he envisions it. And this movie in its documenting of this vision and process, deserves nothing but praise for always keeping its focus and never deviating from what it intends to educate us on.

About Endlessness was the first Roy Andersson movie I watched, and it is by far my favorite from the director. Because up until that point, I have never seen a movie quite like it, and seeing it only made me seek out more of what Roy has to say. And after familiarizing myself with Roy Andersson's vision on screen ever since, it is finally nice to see Roy Andersson's vision from behind the screen as well.

I loved it and enjoyed every minute of it.