Interview with An Pham Thien, director of Hãy tỉnh thức và sẵn sàng [Stay Awake, Be Ready] How did you go about creating Hãy tỉnh thức và sẵn sàng? Can you talk us through the filming processes? Once I was drinking with my friends on street stalls, I observed there are many different shades of human destiny who are earning their living around […]
Interview with Soetkin Verstegen, director of Freeze Frame Why did you want to animate Freeze Frame in black and white? (A question for fun: isn’t the black and white image “the most absurd technique since the invention of” the colour image?) The film is a play with formal elements of early cinema. It’s a time frame I got interested in while making my previous film: Mr Sand. […]
Interview with Dayan David Oualid, director of Dibbuk Are there any real concepts in Dibbuk or is it completely made up? The whole exorcism ritual is authentic. I didn’t make any of that up. I studied the subject for several months and tried to stick as closely as possible to the ritual as it’s described in the different works and testimonials I was […]
Tuesday 4th of February 2020 at 4.30pm. Speakers: Hélène Vayssieres, Head of short films service at ARTE France, Gregory Audermatte, short films buyer at ARTE France, Catherine Colas, Head of short films at ARTE ZDF, Laurence Rilly, Head of short films at ARTE GEIE (Strasbourg, France). A video directed by the students of the ARFIS École from Villeurbanne (France).
Interview with Sevgi Eker, director of 49 Years from the House on the Left In which location did you shoot? How did you work on the set and the lights? The film was shot on an island one-hour boat ride away from a major city. The location on its own was a key in constructing the rhythm of the film. The uphill, downhill […]