Interview with Thomas Soulignac, director of Bruits blancs [White Noises] How did you get the desire to make a film around a seance with spirits? I discovered Trans Communication Instrumental (TCI) through an audio documentary. I was immediately taken with the originality and the poetry of the process, which consists of recording ambient sounds on a tape recorder, hoping to capture voices from […]
Interview with Reza Fahimi, director of Sefid poosh [White Clad] Where did the idea of Sefid poosh come from? It was a time that execution by hanging became my concern so I decided to show this kind of death penalty from a child’s perspective with a childish outlook. What did you wish to explore through the story of Ahmad? I was fascinated by […]
Interview with Gabriel Böhmer, director of Push This Button If You Begin to Panic Which techniques did you use to create and animate these superimposed paper cuts? The film primarily employs a cutout technique. The characters, and sets, are all just little pieces of paper that have been cut out by hand. The film revolves around an MRI, which is a medical scan […]
Interview with Marjolaine Grandjean, director of Juste à Nantes What was the starting point for Juste à Nantes? There are several starting points, firstly the experience of the end of my first love which took a completely abnormal amount of time to get over. Concretely, a few years ago, I sent a script to a producer who reads it and says: “The first […]
Interview with Margrethe Danielsen, director of Pearl Diver What were you keen to explore through these three relationships? I wanted to investigate the idea that there are no relationships without suffering. With this as the main focus, I also tried to show why people still bother opening up to others. Can you tell us a bit more about your animation style? How did […]
Interview with Davoud Rangkhaneh, director of Nightclub How did you get the inspiration for Nightclub? There is no nightclub in Iran. I have never been to a nightclub. The main source of inspiration for me was the ancient myths of Iran and the experience of parties and friendly get-togethers as another source of inspiration. The difference between these spaces and the real nightclub formed this […]
Interview with Lisa Diaz, director of Eva voudrait [Eva Wishes] The film, longer than average for a short, allows us to follow the complex journey of our protagonist and to make a nuanced portrait of her. What made you decide to adopt this format and this length? I previously made five short narrative films. I wanted to test a longer format: to test […]
Interview with Loke Yee Lai, director of The Cloud Is Still There The main character, Xiao Le, has to face the clash between her Christians beliefs with the Taoist rituals her family observe. What has drawn you to this subject ? The Cloud Is Still There is made based on my own teenage experience growing up as the only Christian in the traditional Taoism family, in […]
Interview with Shoko Hara, director of Just a Guy Why did you want to share your relationship with Richard Ramirez? When I found my letter from Richard Ramirez back then in 2018 I also remembered that he had a lot of female fans and girlfriends. So I was interested how the relationship between him and the women looked like, what kind of women […]
Interview with Edmond Carrère, director of Maximum moderne [Modern Maximum] Was the starting point for Maximum moderne your own particular interest in astronomy, or did the observatory come about because of the story’s needs? I wasn’t especially interested in astronomy as such, but in the observatory, yes. It’s a bit cliched to say, but from the beginning of the writing stage we envisioned […]
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