Bas Jan Ader (1942-1975) – artist, photographer, director, legendary personality, one of the ideological inspirations for many modern Dutch directors. Most of his creative life was spent in Los Angeles. His creative path consisted of constant searches, losses, falls. In one of his most famous films, I'm Too Sad to Tell You (1971), Bas Jan Ader cries in front of the camera. The sea, the land, the artist has with great sadness known they too will be no more. “The artist realized with great sadness
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Bas Jan Ader (1942-1975) – artist, photographer, director, legendary personality, one of the ideological inspirations for many modern Dutch directors. Most of his creative life was spent in Los Angeles. His creative path consisted of constant searches, losses, falls. In one of his most famous films, I'm Too Sad to Tell You (1971), Bas Jan Ader cries in front of the camera. The sea, the land, the artist has with great sadness known they too will be no more. “The artist realized with great sadness that in this world even the sea and the earth are not eternal.” And he himself is not eternal. He died young while sailing the ocean in a small ship, reading Hegel.