Interview with Leonardo Martinelli, director of Fantasma Neon [Neon Phantom] What is your link to musicals and how did you come up with the idea of making Fantasma Neon a musical?I believe Brazil has some of the best composers in the world. The use of music in national cinema has always been keen, but musical cinema itself has never had many resources to […]
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 […]
Interview with Theo Montoya, director of Son of Sodom How have you met Camilo Najar? I met Camilo 6 years ago at a party. When I saw him, he immediately caught my attention, he was a special guy, with his curly hair, and super thin. Besides that, he had an overwhelming personality. I will always remember a phrase that he told me “I […]
