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Daniel Kwan
@dunkwun
1/2 of DANIELS Swiss Army Man EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE
Dec 8, 2022 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
The algorithm pushed this onto my timeline, and as one of the people who made the film, this aggression will not stand, man. 🧵🧵🧵 I know the end of year discourse on film twitter can be toxic af with all of the "Best of" lists that come out, but this really needs to stop. The act of ranking any piece of art is so absurd and should only be seen as an incredibly personal and subjective endeavor.
Apr 11, 2022 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
😭 Thank you for saying this. I've spent most of my career ashamed of the fact that I am a maximalist filmmaker (connected to my, until recently, undiagnosed ADHD). I admired and envied the minimalist masters (like kogonada) but knew I could never have the confidence to do it.🧵 So much discussion around "important" art is usually focused on minimalism/restraint, subtly/nuance. But I'm now realizing there is a place for work like ours, especially in a world where there is too much to process, maybe maximalist art is essential to meeting this moment.
Apr 8, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Our movie, Everything Everywhere All At Once, comes out today, @a24 asked us to mark the occasion with a letter to the community.

This movie is our love letter to the world (every last drop of it) so thank you to everyone who has written us back. It means everything to us.
Apr 7, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
This film and all of us who worked on it are a product of our time. We learned VFX from Video Copilot. We learned shot design from Every Frame A Painting. The Martial Club (fight choreo) are youtubers with no formal training, and learned everything from watching HK movies. The # of times we broke Premiere Pro and had to call Adobe for help is a testament to how we pushed the NLE technology to its limits (you know THAT montage). The fact that we can move seamlessly between a NLE system and compositing software means we can be more ambitious in post.
Apr 5, 2022 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
In a couple of days, our film Everything Everywhere All At Once goes nationwide to about 1200 theaters. Regardless of how it goes, we are already so grateful for what the film gods have given us. Image So grateful to know every person on this crew, many of whom we’ved worked with for over 10 years. The shorthand we’ve created over the years, understanding each other’s strengths and filling in for each other’s weaknesses, is the only way ambitious projects like this can exist. Image
Apr 3, 2022 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
It’s true. We were frustrated with the big post houses and how impossible it was for us to integrate into the traditional vfx pipeline. We hired our friends who we’ve been doing music videos with for the past 10 years, & they did the impossible. If you a vfx nerd READ THIS THREAD None of us knew how to do VFX so we learned everything from YouTube videos (the norm these days honestly). We taught each other everything we know. We worked on each others videos from our garages and our bedrooms for 10 years. We created a very organic and fluid system.
Sep 3, 2018 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
Happy Labor Day! Here’s a PSA to let you know Music video directors are the only directors in the industry to not have unionized*, giving them literally no voice against music labels. I am no expert on any of this, but here are some observations from the trenches /thread (*Music Videos move into a union category once the budget exceeds something like $250k, but those are so rare nowadays, and I have never worked on one before)