The Banality Revolution: Nicolaas Schmidt's Provocative Challenge to Cinema Nicolaas Schmidt's latest offering, September Afternoon, is generating buzz at this year's Locarno Film Festival for its unconventional approach to storytelling.
The film presents a series of mundane moments unfolding with deliberate slowness, pushing the boundaries of what audiences expect from a cinematic experience.
Schmidt's philosophy on filmmaking – "plain banality is stimulating as fuck" – may seem puzzling at first.