compétition labo

Interview with Casper Kjeldsen, director of Det Er i Jorden [In the Soil] Is thriller your favorite genre to direct?I don’t have a favorite genre to direct but every time I make a film I always gravitate towards the horrific and terrifying. I think that the cinematic language of these genres is very maximalist and made to confront and withhold the audience in […]

Watch the interview with the Czech filmmaker Diana Cam Van Nguyen about her short film Love, Dad selected in the 2022 Lab Competition (L2 programme).

Interview with Olivier Smolders, director of Masques [Masks] How much were you interested by the issue of filiation and transmission for this film?My cinematic desires are intuitive, sensorial, linked to people and objects that I want to film. It is only whilst the work is in progress that I discover along the way roughly « what it is about ». I have been wanting to […]

Interview with Pierre Schlesser, director of L’Huile et le Fer [Iron and Oil] What interested you about the machine noises and gestural movements shown in the film?First off, I wanted to talk about bodies exhausted from labor. So I lingered on repetitive movements that wear you out. And then, I think it’s the philosopher Giorgio Agamben who says of films that they’re “the […]

Watch the interview with the French-Tunisian filmmaker Lotfi Achour about his short film Angle mort selected in the 2022 Lab Competition.

Watch the interview with the English filmmaker Varun Raman about his short film Man or Tree selected in the 2022 Lab Competition.

Interview with Vincent Le Port, director of La Marche de Paris à Brest [Walking from Paris to Brest] What led you to give this film an “old-fashioned” effect, bringing it closer to your inspiration Walking from Munich to Berlin by Oskar Fischinger, with this series of short shots interspersed with white cuts?Before filming, I ran lots of tests in both analog and digital, […]

Interview with Pablo Serret de Ena, director of Useless Opera Singers How much are you related to absurdism?Not much really, or at least consciously. It usually interests me whenever there is a conflict between meanings, or when these are created by confronting apparently very different subjects. In the film everything is connected under some kind of logic, even though it might not seem […]

Interview with Olivier van Malderghem, director of Au Circuit (At the Circuit) Why did you decide to shoot in black in white?The idea for this film came to me during a harsh, dark winter as I made my way across the deserted track. The characters and plot came later. When viewed in black and white, that place, which I’d photographed before, unveiled its […]

Interview with Bill Morrison, director of Her Violet Kiss From which material did you build up Her Violet Kiss?Her Violet Kiss sources material from a lost German film, Liebeshölle (1928), directed by Wiktor Biegnaski and Carmine Gallone, and which was released in the USA as Pawns of Passion in 1929. I was working with the only known surviving copy of the film, which […]