A video interview with the member of the Lab Jury Jeanne Added, Singer, songwriter, performer and producer.
Interview with Alberto Vázquez, director of Homeless Home Why did you want to relate the appearance of the characters to famous mystical figures (sorceress, ghost, devil, etc.)? I liked the idea of working with witches, ogres, orcs and wizards to delve into current social issues, because although the protagonists of the short film are monsters, their problems are very human: economic crisis, depopulation, […]
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 […]
Interview with Paul Bush, director of Orgiastic Hyper-Plastic At first, did you get the inspiration from the sight of materials, maybe accumulated, or from the line of thought? Since Furniture Poetry in 1999 I have been making replacement animation using multiple, similar-shaped, found objects. I wanted to animate plastic junk for a long time. Ten years ago I proposed it to a Chinese […]
A video interview with the member of the Lab Jury Juanita Onzaga, director, cinematographer and visual artist. Her previous short film “Our Song to War” was selected in the 2019 Lab Competition.
Watch the interview with the Welsh filmmaker Daniel Gray about his short film HIDE selected in the 2021 Lab Competition (L2 programme).
Happy birthday to the Lab Competition! Since 2001, the Lab Competition of the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival has given prominence to visionary, avant-garde and (re)inventor filmmakers. Every year, this completely offbeat selection takes you by surprise and shakes up a cinematic landscape based on its achievements. Experimental playground, unbridled animation puzzles, cerebral agitations… In the Lab our world is questioned, dissected, reassembled, […]
