Sep 13, 2025
Thomas Flight on why Dune's editing feels different
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Thomas Flight on why Dune's editing feels different
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Hollywood faces the largest crisis its seen since 1950. This is the story of the shifting role cinema plays in our culture and what it needs
A very thoughtful, interesting video. And no, it's not all about how the smart phones are the devil and movies these days are all crap blah blah. One of the points that particularly grabbed me was:
In 2025,
when you go see a movie,
you're probably taking a break from the most
overwhelming sensory spectacle humanity has
ever created.
I watched this on Nebula, but here's the link on Youtube:
"What makes art a work of art is not just the end result, but the process we use to get there. True expression in art emerges from every tiny choice made in the process of bringing that art into reality as a representation of our experience and perspective on life. The artistic process is something both conscious and unconscious that reveals itself through each brush stroke, through accidents and how we respond to them, through collaborative decisions made by humans, through the way the environment we make the art within subtly influences each choice in the process. Each decision or accident we make in the process of creating art is an opportunity for meaning, perspective and experience to sneak into the work, even when we're not consciously planning for that to happen. Any aspect of the process that we use AI for then necessarily removes you from the process. But you and your perspective is the very source of what makes something art. The prompt is not a tool you use to express yourself through, it's a way of describing an outcome you want to achieve and having something else try to achieve that outcome for you".
Thomas Flight, "Why AI "Art" Feels So Wrong"
This video by Thomas Flight got me thinking.
Sometimes I get this overwhelming kind of awe for just how much communication humans do with every gesture, look, word, and choice. It's wild that visual metaphors like those in Severance are effective even when you don't consciously notice them. It makes me wonder how communication with an alien would work, or even if it would work. How many of these kinds of subtle symbols are universal? What if none of them are? I think most people are unaware of the degree to which they can read other people, picking up on signals that might not even be communicated intentionally. What happens when a human tries to read a non-human? The easiest example I can think of is with chimps. Humans smile to show happiness, to put each other at ease (among many other things). But smiling at a chimp communicates aggression and danger (depending on eye contact, and which teeth are showing). And that's on the less subtle end of the spectrum. What kind of signals would we miss completely--or misinterpret--with a life form even further removed from us?
Also, Severance is a really good show and everyone should watch it.
You guys need to watch this or the film itself. This is the director and showrunner for the Buffy reboot’s work.
I think it’s pretty clear that we need to support her.
If you give a crap about character representation, character development or just characterization…
Chloe Zhao making the Buffy reboot IS A VERY GOOD THING. You don’t have to take my word for it. Watch it.
This is exactly who should be making the Buffy reboot.
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"[His] films are revelations. You walk out of them like you wake up from a dream, feeling it means something but forced to intuit what that means in the absence of an easily identifiable rational explanation. Lynch was working out his fears, his darkness, bringing it to life with such richness in these films that they allow us to explore our own, and he did this through his art so lovingly that it didn't feel like he was trying to scare us or horrify us. It felt instead like he was a parent talking a child through their bad dream."
Woooh my darling YouTuber Thomas Flight finally has a video on Dune Part 2's cinematographyyyy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2jhNicI7sY
Yesss I was so excited to see he'd made something for Part Two! This is a great little video and highlights a lot of the things that made the worm riding sequence so great. I feel like it builds on a lot of the stuff he talked about for Part One: keeping the camerawork grounded in real physics, always starting with practical elements even in scenes that have tons of CGI, and being willing to go for a sense of realism even if it means that you can't see the Big Cool Effect as clearly as possible because it's obscured by the metric fuckton of sand being blown at the camera. The comparison to GoPro-type videos of surfing and skiing was really apt.
I hope he does more videos for Part Two! I also finally got convinced to join Nebula so I saw his review of watching both parts of Dune back to back as a 5+ hour movie and lol'd so hard when the first thing he said was "...actually it could have been longer." Because he's not wrong!
Thomas Flight x “In Priase of Subtle Performance”.
Big, intense performances are the ones that get a lot of the recognition and praise (often for good reason!). But a lot of my favorite moments of acting are tiny, subtle expressions. In this video I highlight the power of some of these subtler moments of performance, and acknowledge that talent is about much more than intensity.