A critic’s disappointment with a recut film triggered his turn to making art

Evidence

My realization that I was betrayed by the second version of Shadows was the last stone [sic]. It helped me realize that what I was talking about, what I really saw in the first version of Shadows, nobody else really saw: I was pursuing my own ideal, my own dream. They didn’t know what they had: a blind man’s improvisation which depended on chance accidents. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 75

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s theme of how artists are converted into makers by structural disappointments — the same mechanism by which scenes form.
• SEED: Angle: the moment a critical/‘institutional’ figure realizes no one else saw their vision and defects into art-making — a hinge in how scenes turn into movements.