BIRDMAN did not begin with a high-profile director saying, “let’s figure out a cool gimmick that nobody has ever done before.” BIRDMAN began with an observation by writer-director Alejandro González Iñárritu. His observation was that life doesn’t happen in cuts. Life doesn’t feel like cuts.

Instead, he wanted to make a movie that felt more like life. He wanted to make a movie that felt cyclical, that felt like it didn’t have clear borders because our lives and our memories don’t have clear borders.

In this podcast, Jacob Krueger will discuss how Iñárritu's choice to simultaneously break and follow cinematic "rules" epitomized the poetic potential of filmmaking.

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