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Interview with Vincent Le Port, director of La Marche de Paris à Brest [Walking from Paris to Brest] What led you to give this film an “old-fashioned” effect, bringing it closer to your inspiration Walking from Munich to Berlin by Oskar Fischinger, with this series of short shots interspersed with white cuts?Before filming, I ran lots of tests in both analog and digital, […]

Interview with Martin Jauvat, director of Grand Paris Express What interested you about shooting on the work site of the Grand Paris Express?I live in Chelles, just to the east of Paris, where huge construction sites have colonized the town for several years. Same for the RER E line that I take just about every day to get to Paris: work sites are […]

Interview with Alejandro Alonso, director of Abisal [Abyssal] The ship-breaking yard appears to be the perfect filming location for Abisal, that deals with spirituality and ghostly presence. How did you come up with this idea? We discovered the ship-breaking yard by navigating through Google Earth. From a satellite view, Bahía Honda is full of small, rectangular-shaped spots. Understanding that they were destroyed ships in […]

Interview with Nicolas Panay, director of Le Point de reprise [Breakpoint] How interested are you in the topic of blue collar working conditions, and do you plan to make other films on this topic?Without mentioning it, I wanted to talk about my adoptive region, the Aube, which used to be the flagship of the textile industry and still has some beautiful remnants to […]

Interview with Pablo Serret de Ena, director of Useless Opera Singers How much are you related to absurdism?Not much really, or at least consciously. It usually interests me whenever there is a conflict between meanings, or when these are created by confronting apparently very different subjects. In the film everything is connected under some kind of logic, even though it might not seem […]

Interview with Ali Cabbar, director of Bahçeler Put Kesildi [Gardens petrified] Where did the idea for the movie come from?I have been living in Istanbul for many years and I have been dealing with cinema and television works. My family lives in Manisa and looks after our vineyards, which we have cultivated with great care for generations. We lost my father in late […]

Interview with Christoph Büttner, director of In Seiner Gnade [In His Mercy] How did you come across La Torture par l’espérance, the particularly cruel short story by Auguste de Villiers de L’Isle-Adam, and what has drawn you to make an animated film of it?By March 2018 I already had been stuck since four months in story development of my graduation film. I realized […]

Interview with Valéry Carnoy, director of Titan Who (or what) inspired you for Nathan’s character?When creating Nathan’s character, I was inspired by a childhood friend. A turbulent and reckless young boy who had the annoying habit of pushing me to my limits.  A young man, who in intimate moments could be very sensitive and sweet. It is these two faces, tender and violent […]

Interview with Romain Dumont, director of Au plaisir les ordures ! (See You Garbage!) For your second short film, you chose to address the subject of class contempt and the mechanisms of social domination. Did current events, works of fiction or documentaries or even readings fuel this choice?I don’t see how current events could have inspired me to address class contempt, knowing that […]

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 […]