The Problem With Avant-Garde Cinema

I was talking to a friend last night, shout out to Griffin for bringing this to my attention, he's a big Werner Herzog fan, and he was going through Herzogs. And I was kind of digging into how the lambasting against cinema verite as the one could sort of escape from whether it be ideology or an image of thought that did not have any desire or any perspective,. It just is pure presence, unmediated. So it kind of reminded me about what you were trying to get at with, I guess, you know, you were putting us as the viewer front and center but if we kind of take a coops notion of cinematic ontology as though the director were