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A selection of classical and contemporary artistic influences at midsumm3r. This list is updated periodically.

Filmmakers

• Darren Aronofsky

• David Lynch

• Ari Aster

• Quentin Tarantino

• Stanley Kubrick

• Alfred Hitchcock

• The Wachowskis

• Akira Kurosawa

• Guillermo del Toro

• Andrei Tarkovsky

• David Fincher

• The Coen Brothers

• Jim Jarmusch

• Federico Fellini

• Fritz Lang

• Ridley Scott

• Hayao Miyazaki

• Ingmar Bergman

• Sydney Lumet

• Sergio Leone

• Roman Polanski

• Mario Bava

• Christopher Nolan

• F.W. Murnau

• Pedro Almodovar

• Spike Lee

• Satyajit Ray

• Terrence Malick

• Alejandro González Iñárritu

• Lars von Triers

• Paul Thomas Anderson

• Brian de Palma

• Ridley Scott

• Frank Capra

• Alfonso Cuarón

• Hayao Miyazaki

• Jean-Luc Godard

• Yasujiro Ozu

• Orson Welles

• Francis Ford Coppola

• Sophia Coppola

• Charlie Chaplin

• Martin Scorsese

• John Carpenter

• Werner Herzog

• Tim Burton

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Writers

• Ludwig Wittgenstein

• Socrates

• Henry Miller

• Ursula K. Le Guin

• Anne Rice

• Umberto Eco

• Milan Kundera

• Isaac Asimov

• Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī

• Umberto Eco

• Aldous Huxley

• Herman Melville

• Arthur C. Clarke

• Kurt Vonnegut

• Neal Stephenson

• Bram Stoker

• William Gibson

• Philip K. Dick

• Friedrich Nietzsche

• Robert Greene

• Niccolò Machiavelli

• Jean-Paul Sartre

• Noam Chomsky

• Maya Angelou

• Rene Descartes

• Bertrand Russell

• Arthur Schopenhauer

• Marcus Aurelius

• Stephen King

• Pablo Neruda

• Clarice Lispector

• Jorge Luis Borges

• H. P. Lovecraft

• Alan Moore

• Neil Gaiman

• Jose Saramago

• Fernando Pessoa

• Albert Camus

• Haruki Murakami

• Lewis Carroll

• Gabriel Garcia Marques

• Thomas Mann

• Alexandre Dumas

• Vladimir Nabokov

• Shakespeare

• Charles Bukowski

• Ernest Hemingway

• Fyodor Dostoevsky

• Marcel Proust

• Sylvia Plath

• Jules Verne

• Franz Kafka

• James Joyce

• Goethe

• Virginia Woolf

• Plato

• Edgar Allan Poe

• Victor Hugo

• George Orwell

• Dante Alighieri

• Mary Shelley

• Hannah Arendt

• Dr. Seuss

• Oscar Wilde

• Jane Austen

• Charles Dickens

• T.S. Eliot

• Agatha Christie

• Anthony Burgess

• JK Rowling

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Musicians

• Godspeed You! Black Emperor

• Pink Floyd

• Audioslave

• Amy Winehouse

• God is an Astronaut

• Tool

• Bonobo

• Mars Volta

• Rage Against the Machine

• This Will Destroy You

• Explosions in the Sky

• The Doors

• The Black Keys

• Lana del Rey

• Zhu

• Queens of the Stone Age

• MGMT

• Rush

• Deftones

• Radiohead

• Massive Attack

• Rush

• Buena Vista Social Club

• Odesza

• Polyphia

• The Cure

• Grateful Dead

• The XX

• David Bowie

• Led Zep

• Rise Against

• The Smiths

• Chico Buarque

• The Clash

• Nas

• Muse

• Johnny Cash

• Incubus

• Don Caballero

• The Notorious B.I.G.

• Soundgarden

• Alice in Chains

• Nine Inch Nails

• Wu-Tang Clan

• Sublime

• Do Make Say Think

• Green Day

• Portishead

• Tupac Shakur

• Sigur Ros

• Pearl Jam

• Nirvana

• Mogwai

• Frank Zappa

• RHCP

• Arctic Monkeys

• Causa Sui

• Bjork

• Men I Trust

• Flentwood Mac

• System of a Down

• Russian Cycles

• Dynamite

• Post Malone

• Imagine Dragons

• Deep Purple

• Jungle

• Aretha Franklin

• Lauryn Hill

• John Lee Hooker

• Big Sean

• The Strokes

• Pierce The Veil

• Beastie Boys

• Queen

• Lorde

• Eric Clapton

• 311

• The Beatles

• Joy Division

• Michael Jackson

• Vinicius de Morais

• Raul Seixas

• Trad Gras Och Stenar

• Buena Vista Social Club

• Bob Dylan

• Jane's Addiction

• Bob Marley

• B.B. King

• Neil Young

• Blockhead

• ZZ Top

• Sex Pistols

• Guns N’ Roses

• Rainbow

• Cream

• Journey