A Lesson from The Discipline of DE: video essay

This is a video essay about a series of revelations I experienced before, while and after watching The Discipline of DE. All clips are used under fair use/criticism.
The Discipline of DE (Gus Van Sant, 1978/79)
Mala Noche (Gus Van Sant, 1986)
Drugstore Cowboy (Gus Van Sant, 1989)
My Own Private Idaho (Gus Van Sant, 1991)
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (Gus Van Sant, 1993)
Gerry (Gus Van Sant, 2002)
Elephant (Gus Van Sant, 2003)
Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman, 1975)
Repulsion (Roman Polanski, 1965)
Cul-De-Sac (Roman Polanski, 1966)
Persona (Ingmar Bergman, 1966)
The Passion of Anna (Ingmar Bergman, 1969)
The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980)
Scum (Alan Clarke, 1979)
Made in Britain (Alan Clarke, 1982)
Elephant (Alan Clarke, 1989)
The Firm (Alan Clarke, 1989)
Sátántangó (Bela Tarr, 1994)
The Turin Horse (Bela Tarr, 2011)
American Psycho (Mary Harron, 2000)
Nickolodeon (Peter Bogdanovich, 1976)
Tetsuo the Iron Man (Shinya Tsukamoto, 1989)
Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)
The Playhouse (Edward F. Kline & Buster Keaton, 1921)
Employees Leaving the Lumière Factory (Louis Lumiere, 1895)
Archive photographs and footage including Garret Brown's Steadicam test footage featuring his girlfriend Ellen