Interview with Yoriko Mizushiri, director of Anxious Body How much is your creativity committed to the depiction of sensations and feelings? How did you work on this aspect for Anxious body specifically?I am not interested in giving a meaning or message through my work. Instead, I want to connect with the audience by expressing sensations and feelings that can be conveyed without a […]
Interview with Anne-Sophie Bailly, director of La Ventrière [The Midwife] Why did you choose to use the Middle Ages to tell this story? And why set it in the Jura mountains?The Middle Ages is a very broad historical period, and is sometimes very caricatured. In the film, I depict the late Middle Ages, or even the early Renaissance, around 1600, and that’s a […]
Interview with Héloïse Ferlay, director of À la mer poussière [To the Dusty Sea] What materials did you use for the bodies and for the tears, and why this choice? How many times did you try different things before you found the effect you were looking for? My puppets’ bodies are covered in wool, the tears are made from hydroalcoholic gel before it […]
Interview with Jérémie Cousin, director of À l’Ouest [Westward] What inspired you to make a short film about father-child relations, divorce and life’s trials? I wanted to make a film on the lack of communication in a family and the problems that can lead to. My parents are divorced and everyone is doing fine nowadays but I think we’ve all suffered from a […]