Interview
Filmmaker Lois Patiño discusses the influence of James Turrell’s art, working with sound designer Xabier Erkizia and casting a baby goat in his astonishing new film, Samsara.
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Artist and animator Edwin Rostron discusses automatic animation, exploring the process of painting, finding abstraction from template forms.
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Artist Duncan Poulton talks e-hoarding, the hyper saturation of contemporary image culture, co-opting online tropes, and creating texture in digital media.
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Artist filmmakers Daniel & Clara discuss working in different media, the uncanny portrayal of lived experience, and the impact of neolithic site of Avebury on their practice.
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Artist and filmmaker Adonia Bouchehri discusses creating worlds from objects, reincarnation through artificial intelligence, and Foucault’s heterotopias.
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Experimental filmmaker Courtney Stephens discusses secondary perspectives, the nature of emancipation, and the performance elements of her film Terra Femme.
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Artist Katharine Fry discusses casting her doll performers, constructions of the self, and finishing the script a few days before her film, When I’m with you, premiered.
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Artist and filmmaker Ben Russell discusses the realtionship between his two films Against Time and What Distinguishes the Past, the role of music in his cinema, “blueness” and the influence of Lee Friedlander.
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Greek director Jacqueline Lentzou speaks about visual storytelling, her relationship with her leading actress, and remaining unconventional with her feature debut, Moon, 66 Questions.
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Since her 2009 debut Mundane History, Anocha Suwichakornpong has anchored her narratives around notions of identity and memory, on which she has reflected through tales of individuals navigating dreams, re-imagined stories, and traumatic pasts.
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The films of Saara Ekström are recognisable for their focus on symbols, associations, and a desire to both remember and forget the past. Her latest short, Shadow Codex, which premiered in the New Visions strand of this year’s CPH:DOX, is no different.
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The BFI Archive’s dedicated artists’ moving image curator talks about the ongoing secret screening series.
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The Canadian filmmaker talks re-filming old classics, Mordançage, and the power of cinema.
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The artist film maker talks about canons, gatekeepers, Brecht, and the theatrical experience.
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Academic and video essayist Catherine Grant on the creative possibilities or remixing as critical practice
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The director discusses animated re-enactment, hysterical male laughter and the othering of queerness…
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The Italian-born director talks about ‘restoring behaviour’, the limbo between documentary and fiction and the ethics of representation…
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