Having gone through the film shot by shot, he now considers it a "masterpiece of physical filmmaking, in the way the photography evokes mood and the editing underlines it with uncertainty".
But there's no competing with a man who turns the act of donning a too-tight Santa costume into a masterpiece of naive physical comedy.
But in this brilliantly coloured Victorian masterpiece, true work is sweatily physical.
Not many of those copies went straight to secondhand stores, because Physical Graffiti turned out to be a masterpiece.
Cervantes' masterpiece seems to have been inspired by the physical and psychological pressures of confinement, linking the first modern novel with the prison experience.
And yet the masterpiece, the epitome of one's protection from the physical world, has got to be the Toto Washlet, a computer-designed "smart toilet," which does everything on your behalf except wipe.
Where the music on OutKast's 1998 masterpiece, "Aquemini" (LaFace), relied on relaxed, midtempo funk vamps and physical instruments (or samples of them), much of "Stankonia" is faster, harder and funnier.
The company creates games like Masterpiece, which allows children to trace an iPad image on a physical piece of paper, and Tangram, a game where players organize physical tiles so that they match an image on the iPad screen.
In his masterpieces, Fan Zeng's biography, erudition, sense of humor, remarkable physical presence, all have disappeared, the "Four Treasures of the Study" have vanished, only the Qi, the vital energy, circulates between the visible and the invisible.
If it's possible for a film to convey a physical sensation of the world that is more intense than everyday life, Bruno Dumont's flawed masterpiece, "Humanite," does a disquietingly good job.
