Van Gogh as an Indie Filmmaker

Jameela Khan over at Raindance has written an excellent piece on the Dutch artist Van Gogh, giving ten reasons why he would make a successful indie filmmaker:

 But regardless of his upbringing being different, what would he have done if he was 29 in our time? I’m sure he would have taken advantage of the film-making tools to recreate moods like never before.

I’m just unable to imagine what he could have done if he was working in our time. Have we seen it yet? Is there more to come? Would he have still chosen painting? Would he have gone into photography or film or would he have pursued something else?

Read the whole thing here