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A high-intensity drama about a young jazz drummer and his abusive instructor. The film captures the grueling nature of artistic perfectionism with visceral intensity. It functions almost like a psychological thriller, using rapid editing and an incredible soundscape to mirror the internal struggle o...
Fletcher Chazelle’s “Not My Tempo” is a 2014 studio speech delivered by Damien Fletcher, creator of the film Whiplash. The recording offers an intimate look at Fletcher's demanding creative process and his philosophy regarding artistic perfection within the constraints of commercial filmmaking. It p...
Thomas Bernhard's 1975 Austrian novel presenting an obsessive monologue about a man who built a geometrically perfect cone house for his sister, who then died in it, exploring perfectionism, guilt, and self-destruction.
*Correction* is a 1975 novel by Austrian author Thomas Bernhard that deals with themes of artistic perfectionism and self-destruction. The narrator spends time in the isolated rural estate of his recently deceased friend, Roithamer, sorting through the man's writings. Through these notes, he reconst...
