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Joel Potrykus is an American film director and screenwriter. His feature film debut Ape won the Best New Director prize at the 2012 Locarno Film Festival, while his follow-up feature Buzzard won the FIPRESCI Prize at the 2014 Ljubljana International Film Festival.
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- Fmi filmmaker interview with joel potrykus writer director of buzzard
- Early life
- Career
- Style and influences
- Feature films
- Short films
- References
Fmi filmmaker interview with joel potrykus writer director of buzzard
Early life
Potrykus was born and raised in Ossineke, Michigan, then moved to Grand Rapids, Michigan to study film at Grand Valley State University.
Career
A stint as a stand-up comedian in New York City led to the inspiration for his first feature film, Ape. While spending a year as a temp at a Michigan mortgage company led to the inspiration of his second feature film, Buzzard. The book Walden by Henry David Thoreau was the influence for Potrykus' 2016 feature The Alchemist Cookbook, which builds on his themes of slackers and loneliness. He's been the subject of retrospectives at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 2015 and at the 2016 Valdivia Film Festival.
He currently teaches screenwriting at Grand Valley State University.
Style and influences
In 2016, Vimooz called Potrykus "The New King of Underground Cinema", while Vague Visages credits him as the originator of new genre, "metal slackerism".
Potrykus has cited the following directors and films as having an influence on his work; Alan Clarke’s ‘Made in Britain’, Lindsay Anderson’s ‘O Lucky Man!’, Martin Scorsese’s ‘Taxi Driver’, Vincent Gallo’s ‘Buffalo ’66’, Rick Alverson’s ‘The Comedy’, Luis Bunuel’s ‘The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie’, Jim Jarmusch’s ‘Down by Law’, Sam Raimi's 'Evil Dead', F. W. Murnau's 'Faust' and James Nguyen’s ‘Birdemic'; as well as the films of Michael Haneke, Kelly Reichardt, Jean-Luc Godard and Quentin Tarantino.