L5

Interview with Laen Sanches, director of PLSTC  Could you explain what the acronym PLSTC represents?  PLSTC is an invented acronym that simply means “plastic.” This word has several advantages: it is succinct, legible, and phonetically understandable in most languages. Also, with its “visually missing” letters, it also perhaps illustrates the idea that plastic does not totally disintegrate but rather, remains, in spite of everything, […]

Interview with Shuli Huang, director of Will You Look at Me  How did the inspiration come about for Will You Look at Me? How much of the footage did you shoot on purpose? Did you work on the soliloquy first or after selecting footage?After I returned to China from New York during the pandemic, I bought a super 8mm camera. I brought it […]

Interview with Pablo Cuturrufo, director of The Phantom Touch How did you construct your narrative from the VR chats in The Phantom Touch? Did you approach users with the project already in mind?       The narrative was built along the way, as when I started I was not sure what the documentary was going to be about. I just knew I wanted to explore and […]

Interview with Daniel Soares, director of Please Make it Work  Did you use an in-camera editing technique, without additional elements? Is it for you an experiment or a routine?The film is really just one continuous take with no hidden cuts. It was an experiment and ended up working in the very last take of the only shoot day we had. But it is definitely also […]

Watch the interview with the Korean filmmaker Boyoung Kim about her short film A Guitar in the Bucket selected in the 2022 Lab Competition (L5 programme).

Interview with Théo Jollet, director of Le Boug Doug [Meet Doug] Why did you want to play with the question of forbidden acts: theft, trafficking, manipulation and so on?The initial idea for the character Doug that came out of my discussions with my long-standing collaborators Martin Maire and Thomas Trichet (together we form the trio JTM) was to come up with a young […]

Interview with Boyoung Kim, director of A Guitar in the Bucket What is your link to guitars and to music?I’m very interested in sound and like music very much. If I hadn’t become an animation director, I think I might have become a musician. The reason I used a music instrument in this project was that I needed a tool that could express […]

Watch the interview with the Mexican filmmaker Gabriel González Acosta about his short film Concertina selected in the 2022 Lab Competition (L5 programme).

Watch the interview with the French filmmaker Vincent Le Port about his short film La Marche de Paris à Brest selected in the 2022 Lab Competition (L5 programme).