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How creative partnerships break out of comfortable stagnation

My creative partner and I have been making experimental films together for three years and somewhere along the way stopped surprising each other - we can predict what the other person will suggest and our work has become technically polished but creatively safe. We both feel it but talking about creative stagnation feels like admitting failure.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The intimacy and trust that made your collaboration successful has paradoxically eliminated the creative tension that made your work vital.

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