Interview with Yianni Warnock, director of Homebodies Homebodies is your third short of a “despair trilogy.” How this short is connected to your previous films? The films are all connected through their focus on people and exchanges that are all very disconnected. I probably should have called it the ‘disconnected trilogy’, but I find the word despair very extreme, and, in a sense, […]
Interview with Peter Tscherkassky, director of The Exquisite Corpus You’re known to make films with found footage. With The Exquisite Corpus, what was your method ? How did you get your footages? I don’t search for footage. In most cases I get footage as a present from other persons. It’s a very open process because I’m not looking for a specific type of footage. For […]
Interview with Nick Jordan, director of The Atom Station How did you get the idea to make a film in Iceland? My work as an artist & filmmaker usually draws upon our relationship to the natural world in some way; how cultural, political, and economic factors influence both managed and seemingly wild places. As a dynamic, volatile landscape, on the edge of Europe, […]
Interview with Randa Maroufi, director of The Park Your film shows the controversies around the usage of social networks in Morocco, and in particular the Tcharmil Affair, where young people on Facebook groups show off weapons right alongside the latest trends in clothing. What interested you about this phenomenon? It was not the phenomenon as such that interested me, but more what was […]
An interview with Mark Chapman, director of Camrex How did you discover the Camrex Hostel ? Where is it based ? Camrex is based in Sunderland –a city that has a rich industrial history and was formerly a major shipbuilding hub in North East, England. I was casting a drama feature and the project involved extensive work with non-actors and lots of street […]
An interview with Mihai Grecu, director of Reflection of Power Your film takes place in Pyongyang, in North Korea: a mysterious rising water engulfs a city without disturbing the impressive artistic performances and activities going on there. How did you become interested in the country? I was born in Romania under Ceausescu’s dictatorship. I remember dance ceremonies in honor of the regime and […]