Movements: Filmmaker Interviews the editors March 2017 Movements: Filmmaker Interviews This issue we are proud to include a number of interviews with filmmakers from around the world, practicing within a range of different cultural and i...
The New Extremism in the Street of Comedy: An Interview with Bruno Dumont Amir Ganjavie March 2017 Movements: Filmmaker Interviews By 2016 Bruno Dumont had directed nine feature films ranging from realist to experimental works. His major preoccupations in these movies were racism,...
“Empathy is Always a Much-Needed Quality”: An Interview with Filmmaker/Educator Rachel Perkins Isabella McNeill March 2017 Movements: Filmmaker Interviews Born in Canberra in 1970, Australian filmmaker Rachel Perkins grew up in the beating heart of Australia’s Indigenous civil rights movement, an experie...
“Inspiration is More Important Than Experience”: An Interview with Jaime Rosales Tomáš Hudák March 2017 Movements: Filmmaker Interviews When we held retrospective of Jaime Rosales’ work at Cinematik Film Festival in Piešťany, Slovakia in September 2015 and gave him carte blanche to pic...
“Even If You Have Nothing, You Should Keep Filming”: An Interview with Cheng Yu-Chieh on Wawa No Cidal (2015) Christopher Brown March 2017 Movements: Filmmaker Interviews Cheng Yu-Chieh’s film Wawa No Cidal (2015) relates the story of journalist Panay (Ado Kaliting Pacidal), a woman of aboriginal Taiwanese heritage, who...
Intuition and the Search for Deep Emotion: An Interview with Nana & Simon Brigitta Wagner March 2017 Movements: Filmmaker Interviews In order to understand what the collaborative filmmaking couple Nana Ekvtimishvili and Simon Groβ, known simply as Nana & Simon, do so beautifully...
Arab Cinema Through a Narrow Frame: A Conversation with Tala Hadid Kamran Rastegar March 2017 Movements: Filmmaker Interviews Tala Hadid first came to general notice as a filmmaker with her short film, Your Dark Hair, Ihsan (Tes cheveux noirs Ihsan, 2005), which was awarded s...