Other artists» approaches to filmmaking approximated various
tropes and moods of poetry, bending the medium to poignant ends alternately vested in distance and immediacy: Stanya Kahn's evocations of abject absurdity through stand - up comedy; Barry Doupe's alienated dreams told in disjointed narrations and flattened, chromatically charged figurations; Ryan Trecartin's bewilderingly familiar stream - of - consciousness rants grounded by a intuitive,
cinematic fluidity.