“Resistance is the driving force of the film”: An Interview with Davy Chou Maja Korbecka July 2022 Interviews Cambodian-French writer-director Davy Chou’s third full-length film, Return to Seoul, which premiered in Un Certain Regard at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, focuses on a French Korean adoptee during her recurri...
The Plains: Conversation with David Easteal Maria Giovanna Vagenas July 2022 Interviews In The Plains, David Easteal’s astonishing feature debut, we are invited to virtually take a place in the back seat of the car of the protagonist, a middle-aged lawyer named Andrew Rakowski, a real-life person,...
Human is only human when vulnerable: An Interview With Michel Franco Savina Petkova May 2022 Interviews In less than 20 years, writer-director Michel Franco has carved a niche for himself in the more austere parts of world cinema. The Mexican filmmaker has never shied away from representing thorny issues on scree...
‘I Was Taunting the Western’: An Interview with Alejandra Márquez Abella Silvia Spitta & Gerd Gemünden May 2022 Interviews In February of this year, the third feature by Alejandra Márquez Abella, El norte sobre el vacío (Northern Skies over Empty Space), celebrated its premiere at the 2022 Berlin Film Festival in the beloved Panora...
“The Act of Filming is an Inner and Physical Journey in Itself”: Interview with Helke Misselwitz Victor Paz May 2022 Interviews Play-Doc International Film Festival has been taking place every spring for 18 years in the charming medieval town of Tui (Spain). The event shows only about 30 screenings divided into two venues over five days...
Information as a music video, comedy as a diagram: Beny Wagner & Sasha Litvintseva in conversation Madeleine Collier May 2022 Interviews Beny Wagner and Sasha Litvintseva are fascinated by perception’s role in shaping history. Their last film, A Demonstration (2020), used the bifurcated Latin root monstrare (which is at the root of both the word...
The Creative Leap to Fluid Consciousness: An Encounter with Ashley McKenzie Brigitta Wagner May 2022 Interviews In Corona’s third winter, it was hard to care about cinema as one should. The kind of cinema that requires one’s physical presence in theatres and at festivals. Gathering indoors with strangers has become a cha...
Interview with Albert Birney & Kentucker Audley Nolan Kelly May 2022 Interviews Independent American cinema is defined by the exigencies of its fundraising. In the shadow of the world’s largest entertainment industry – whose success is dependent on broad commercial appeal and consolidative...
An Interview with Danny Lyon Elizabeth Dexter May 2022 Interviews Born in New York in 1942 to German and Russian Jewish immigrant parents, Danny Lyon has always taken photographs. In the late ‘60s, after a life lived in and alongside the Civil Rights movement, detailed in his...
Closing the Gap Between Self and Self: A Conversation with Nina Menkes Paulo B. Menezes May 2022 Interviews Tel Aviv, Israel, 2016. It is hotter than it is supposed to according to the weather bulletin. A taxi ride to Jaffa, the old port part of the city, directions written on a small piece of paper in Arabic. Beauti...
Pom Bunsermvicha interview: “Being part of a family“ Maja Korbecka January 2022 Interviews As a result of institutional support, independent filmmaking in Southeast Asia is flourishing. Thailand has grown into a creative hub – production companies such as Electric Eel Films help realise the ideals of...
Leaning into the Challenge: Interview with Scattered co-creators Logan Mucha and Kate Darrigan Stuart Richards January 2022 Interviews Social media platforms have long been avenues for filmmakers to experiment with form and story. YouTube, Vimeo and Snapchat have had varying amounts of original content from filmmakers. For many, TikTok is a ne...
