^ "Coyote, Ape, Buzzard: Joel Potrykus on Film"."Meet the 2014 AFI Filmmakers #2: 'Buzzard' Director On Why It's Good to Steal From Your Inspirations". "INTERVIEW: Joel Potrykus – The New King of Underground Cinema". ^ "Joel Potrykus Department of Visual Media Arts"."Joel Potrykus: An Observer of the American pathology". ^ "The Animal Trilogy: Buzzard, Ape, Coyote"."Milk Vomit and 'Pac Man': Joel Potrykus' 'Relaxer' Is a Masterpiece of Depraved '90s Nostalgia". ^ "SXSW Q&A: Writer/Director Joel Potrykus talks 'The Alchemist Cookbook '"."Joel Potrykus's Film 'Buzzard' Is Inspired by Dead-End Jobs". "Low-Res MFA Student Makes Off-Beat Film with Unusual Business Model". ^ Westrope, Andrew (September 14, 2012).International Federation of Film Critics. 48 Laws of Power, The - Robert Greene, Feb, 2000.epub. Peter Knows Kelly's the Cool One (1999) List of the 56 titles currently available (epub format only): 13 Things Mentally Strong People Dont Do Take Back Your Power, Embrace Change, Face Your Fears, and Train Your Brain for Happiness and Success - Amy Morin, Dec, 2014.epub.Murnau's Faust and James Nguyen's Birdemic as well as the films of Michael Haneke, Kelly Reichardt, Jean-Luc Godard and Quentin Tarantino. Potrykus has cited the following directors and films as having an influence on his work Alan Clarke's Made in Britain, Lindsay Anderson's O Lucky Man!, Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver, Vincent Gallo's Buffalo ’66, Rick Alverson's The Comedy, Luis Buñuel's The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Jim Jarmusch's Down by Law, Sam Raimi's Evil Dead, F. Vague Visages credits him as the originator of the new genre, "metal slackerism". In 2016, Vimooz called Potrykus "The New King of Underground Cinema". He currently teaches filmmaking at Grand Valley State University. He's been the subject of retrospectives at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 2015 and at the 2016 Valdivia Film Festival. His fourth feature film Relaxer, is a modern interpretation of Luis Buñuel's The Exterminating Angel. The book Walden by Henry David Thoreau was the influence for Potrykus' 2016 feature The Alchemist Cookbook, which builds on his themes of slackers and loneliness. While spending a year as a temp at a Michigan mortgage company led to the inspiration of his second feature film, Buzzard. Career Ī stint as a stand-up comedian in New York City led to the inspiration for his first feature film, Ape. Later, he earned his MFA in screenwriting from Emerson College. Potrykus was born and raised in Ossineke, Michigan, then moved to Grand Rapids, Michigan to study film at Grand Valley State University.