Stanley Kubrick made news a couple of years
before when he filmed
scenes for his Barry Lyndon only by candlelight; Malick and Almendros routinely films in pre-dawn shadow and post-sunset darkness, and come up with
magical - looking footage.
Later, over email, Wagner reflected almost wistfully, «While [Founder] Austin Thomas wasn't the first Bushwick art presence (we were doing artist studio visits in the area
before Pocket Utopia)... I can't think of the building — or of the larger Bushwick art
scene — separate from her
magical space and its mission».