Interview with Sasha Argirov, director of Nurture Why did you choose this title in particular? Nurture just popped into my head one day when I was writing a draft of the script. As a title, it sums up the entire story for me. It also provides the perfect ironic counterpoint to the first image we see at the start of the film. What was […]
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 Carlos Segundo, director of Big Bang What interested you in the relationship to extreme heat in Big Bang?Big Bang is the second short film in a trilogy of “space” films (the first one being Sideral). In Big Bang, I maintain my focus on the ordinary lives of the marginalized. But like in Sideral, I find the power and strength in the […]
Interview with Kamal Aljafari, director of Paradiso, XXXI, 108 Where and when does Paradiso, XXXI, 108 take place?Paradiso, XXXI, 108 is taking place in Al-Naqab desert, in the south of Palestine. From which material did you get the military pictures? Did you do editing?The material is coming from films commissioned by the Israeli Army. They were didactic, educational propaganda films, where basically being […]