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On a permanent quest for "things that are firing [his] imagination", Jim Jarmusch occupies a unique place in American and international postmodern cinema. Meticulously and enthusiastically drawing on literature, philosophy, the visual arts, cartoons, songs and music, fascinated by foreign languages and accents, cultures and landscapes, Jarmusch seeks the "blurring together of seemingly disparate elements" in order to yield beauty and poetry. For more than three decades Jarmusch's use of oblique comedy, contemplative narration, episodic structure, insistent intertextuality, and cross-cultural referencing has depicted the human condition with restrained disenchantment or detached celebration. The 16 texts (written in French and English) that appear in The Jarmusch Variations highlight new insights into the ethics and aesthetics of one of the most original auteur-directors from Indiewood.

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