The Search— A vision portrayed through Gus Van Sant’s Filmography and Art.
Purpose, Belonging, and the vision of Life as a Journey.
Gus Van Sant’s filmography is one that has always struck me on a deeper level through his sense of character development and embracing vulnerability through ancillary story telling.
What’s often lacking in Gus Van Sant’s filmography is what is most striking about the Director’s vision; a sense of purpose.
To understand Gus Van Sant’s filmography, one would need to understand his work as an artist.
“Paintings and films are really similar — both rely on composition and color and light — and both move in their own ways.”
In his blockbuster success, “Good Will Hunting” the audience follow a character masking his vulnerability and refusing to accept his gift as a genius. Burning bridges and shattering meaningful relationships as a form of escapism from Society.
He reviews this subject once more, in his lesser known project “Gerry”; a film set entirely on the plot of Two very dear friends straying from their path along a hike through Death Valley, only to find themselves losing sense of hope and direction as they fight for…
