Edinburgh International Film Festival 2012: Films on Film

David Crane’s post-Friends project, Episodes, a meta exploration of two television show writers, reflects a current fascination of unpicking the creative process that has also proven successful with comedies such as 30 Rock, The Trip and Extras. The intriguing individuals presented here, such as in Klaartje Quirijns’s compassionate exposé, Anton Corbijn: Inside Out, vastly excel the intellectual appeal of these artists’ personal dissections. With a career that saw Corbijn photographing celebrities for NME, making Nirvana‘s Heart Shaped Box and directing George Clooney in The American, Quirijns is offering a glimpse of a behind-the-lens figure who has helped shape modern society. Corbijn’s near prolific status means the film evolves from an examination of artistic practices into a portrait of the very actions that have partially created the entertainment industry. In this respect, the film has quite an existential ingredient spawning a philosophical discussion on what appears on the recipe of contemporary culture.