I mean, all those other arts you mention are dead as well. Do you even know what it means to say that an art form is dead? Do you think it means that no forms of that art are made anymore? Or do you think it might mean that the art form isn't vital anymore? That the audiences aren't there? That there aren't as many great artists in the field? That society doesn't give it the attention it once did? Something tells me you're very young! There were 15 masters in Old Hollywood, 7 in New Hollywood, 3 in Neo Hollywood. Now there hasn't been an important debut since Lonergan in the early 00s. You're just a child, go back to childish things. "Ari Aster" is not alive, he's dead, dead, dead.