Amateur, seemingly unorganized footage can reveal a filmmaker’s worldview

Evidence

Long stretches of overand under-exposed, jittery sweeps of the loft; obsessive spying on the random activities visible out of its windows. Nothing was chiseled, or dramatic or even organized, it seemed. Yet after some hours of this mesmerism—this I distinctly recall—the footage became the key to a worldview, the pacing back and forth of an underground man whose observations of the random events of the street veered between paranoia and religious illumination. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 1894

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: The underground film aesthetic of unedited, jittery observation parallels the reader’s interest in how art that is ‘ignorable’ — in this case intentionally unpolished — can still hold a worldview.