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    Community Building

    Jul 03, 2019 3 minutes
    By Ari Aster
    as told to Nicolas Rapold

    HEN I WAS APPROACHING THIS VILLAGE AND BUILDING this community, I was doing a lot of research into theosophy and anthroposophy. I was staying far away from paganism and thinking spiritually about this place. I was looking at a lot of theosophical artists like Frantisek Kupka, Remedios Varo, Hilma af Klint. And I was reading [by James George Frazer] while I was writing the script. I love that book, and the first script I wrote was twice

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