Coming off his biggest project yet, the wonderfully strange and ambitious Noah, director Darren Aronofsky is taking some time to decide on what he’ll helm next. Today we have a look at three different forms of storytelling from the director, as discusses the way the medium is changing. “I’m teaching at NYU now, and when I ask my students what they want to do, they all want to make feature films,” Aronofsky recently said at Produced By Conference (via Indiewire).
He adds, “But does that really make sense? We’re in a golden age of television and self-distribution. The 90-minute feature film remains interesting as an event, but seeing the Netflix formula and short web content thrive…. If I was a young storyteller now, I don’t know if I would focus on the dream of a 90-minute film. Storytelling is changing. There’s an opportunity to do a lot of different things. I’m not sure that the most eyes are going to come out of a theatrical release for a dramatic 90-minute feature.”
First up, we have an early short film from the helmer titled No Time, as well as scenes from Fortune Cookie. Created in the early 90’s while at the American Film Institute, they are two of three shorts he was required to graduate there and the former shows off a more comedic side of the helmer not quite seen nowadays. Following that we jump to his feature films as a 20-minute documentary on Noah has arrived, specifically exploring the beauty of their Iceland location. Lastly, we have a recent climate change commercial from Aronofsky and narrated by Woody Harrelson for NextGen Climate which will air during the World Series in some markets. Check out everything below.
What do you think of Aronofsky’s comments and early short?