Interviews – Senses of Cinema

Sunken Film: Bill Morrison Talks The Village Detective: a song cycle

July 2021

The cover of the October 2019 issue of FIAF’s Journal of Film Preservation sees Erlendur Sveinsson of the National Film Archive of Iceland standing over a long path of film evenly distributed over newspaper she...

An Interview with the late Monte Hellman (1929-2021)

Wheeler Winston Dixon

July 2021

Interviews

One of the legendary figures of the American cinema, the late Monte Hellman (1929 – 2021) is best known for directing Two-Lane Blacktop (1971), considered by many to be the definitive “road movie,” but Hellman’...

“I Myself am a Woman”: A Conversation with Han Shuai

Maja Korbecka

July 2021

Interviews

Writer-director Han Shuai’s Summer Blur, the winner of the Grand Prix for Best Film in the Kplus competition at the 2021 Berlinale, is a mesmerising take on film noir. Its codes and conventions are used to expl...

Daydreaming Through Boundaries: A Conversation with Queena Li

Łukasz Mańkowski

May 2021

Interviews

Premiering during the online edition of this year's International Film Festival Rotterdam in the Tiger Competition section, Queena Li’s Bipolar is a seductive debut. It tells the story of a young woman setting ...

Ecofeminism With Marwa Arsanios

Madeleine Collier

May 2021

Interviews

Marwa Arsanios is a Berlin-based artist, filmmaker, and researcher whose work exposes the political dynamics latent in questions of ecology and land administration. Since 2017, Arsanios has been working on a se...

Afro – Nouveau: The Rise of the African New Wave in Cinema

Justice Ayowale Whitaker

May 2021

Interviews

In late 2019 early 2020, Brooklyn based filmmaker and author Justice A. Whitaker reached out to his friend and fellow filmmaker Togbe Gavua, based in Accra Ghana. The two creatives recorded two conversations th...

Surviving You, Always: An Interview with Director Morgan Quaintance

Sofie Cato Maas

May 2021

Interviews

Among the shorts selected for the Ammodo Tiger Short Competition at the much anticipated (partially) online 50th edition of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), now under the new direction of Vanja...

Mobilities Between Place, Sound and Image: An Interview with Ana Vaz

Dirk de Bruyn

May 2021

Interviews

I spoke with Ana Vaz at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) in 2020. I had not seen Ana since watching her first film Sacris Pulso in Australia (2007), which re-configures the film Brasiliários (19...

“Sometimes it is easier to forget.” – A Conversation with Dieudo Hamadi

Wilfred Okiche

January 2021

Interviews

Interview translated from French by Hélène Ballis For six deadly days in June 2000, armed forces from Rwanda and Uganda clashed on the streets of Kisangani, the third largest city in the Democratic Republic ...

The Violence of Privacy: A Conversation with Kazuo Hara

Łukasz Mańkowski

January 2021

Interviews

After riding onto the film festival circuit with the Japanese New Wave, Kazuo Hara has established himself as a key figure in Japanese non-fiction cinema, with Errol Morris calling him “an undiscovered genius o...

A Mirror of the Ever-Changing Cinematic Landscape: the Eclectic Oeuvre of James Scott

Sofie Cato Maas

January 2021

Interviews

When viewed in retrospect, the vast and versatile oeuvre of British director James Scott (b. 1941), the son of the famous abstract painter William Scott and sculptor Mary Scott, may be best described as a body ...

Matthew Victor Pastor – An Interview

Fiona Villella

January 2021

Interviews

Melbourne-based, independent filmmaker Matthew Victor Pastor has been making films for over ten years. His prolific output so far includes four mini-features and four features. His latest film The Neon Across t...