Not so unknown after all: Jean Cocteau: Autoportrait d’un inconnu (Autobiography of an Unknown) (Edgardo Cozarinsky, 1983) Jytte Holmqvist June 2021 A film is not the telling of a dream, but a dream in which we all participate together through a kind of hypnosis, and the slightest breakdown in the mechanics of the dream wakens the dreamer, who loses interes...
Unfolding Florence – The Many Lives of Florence Broadhurst (Gillian Armstrong, 2006) Jytte Holmqvist April 2021 Rich, fascinating, stylish and lush in colour, Gillian Armstrong’s 2006 documentary Unfolding Florence – The Many Lives of Florence Broadhurst (nominated for four awards and winner of the Queensland & North...
“A Film is a Synthesis”: An Interview with Ventura Pons Jytte Holmqvist March 2018 Highly prolific Catalan filmmaker Ventura Pons (born 25 July 1945) sees the world through a cinematic lens. He argues that “a film is based on three essential fundamental pillars: concept, story and cast”. stor...
A Telephone Interview with Elena Anaya, Barajas Airport, Madrid, 21 July 2017 Jytte Holmqvist September 2017 Spanish actress Elena Anaya is nothing short of impressive. Since the inception of a career that took off in earnest in 1996 with her role in the film África (Alfonso Ungría) she has starred in a number of memo...
The Water Diary (Jane Campion, 2006) Jytte Holmqvist September 2017 Acclaimed Wellington-born New Zealand filmmaker Dame Jane Campion once stated that she “would love to see more women directors because they represent half of the population and gave birth to the whole world. Wi...
Pons, Ventura Jytte Holmqvist March 2017 July 25, 1945, Barcelona, Spain In a contemporary Spain that has seen Pedro Almodóvar leave his impressive mark on the cinematic horizon (his most recent film Julieta screened at a number of film festivals wor...
