Interviews
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Interview with Christian Petzold
No one starts from scratch. Anyone who writes a book has, after all, also read books. Films don’t simply arise in one’s head; they emerge from connections, from proximity.
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Interview with Lucrecia Martel
Cinema isn’t there to say “this is wrong” or “this is right,” but to show how things have been constructed. To show that things are not natural, to show that…
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Interview with Gerald Kargl
When the film premiered in 1983, people in Austria, at the very least, turned up their noses. That harmed me and made it more difficult for me to finance another…
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A Nuri Bilge Ceylan Exhibition in Amsterdam
Eye Filmmuseum is presenting the first exhibition in the Netherlands dedicated to Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s photographs and films, titled “Inner Landscapes”, from January 17 to May 11, 2025. On this…
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Interview with Lav Diaz
Just make cinema. Understand life more. Go to the streets and live in the streets. Don’t stay in your air-conditioned room, because the world is going to be fucked.
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Interview With Helena Wittmann
If you accept the invitation to let go in my films, you’ll find space for detours, there are many ways to experience it, it is meant to be like that.…
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Interview with Jonathan Rosenbaum
I like to think that to write about cinema potentially means to write about everything.
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Interview with Pedro Costa
I am doing these films to forget and to lose. It’s, of course, abstract to say this, but sometimes you have that feeling that you’re losing a lot; you have…
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Interview with Peter Tscherkassky
I have just begun working on a new film, and it’s always a challenging journey for me. I need to convince myself about the film’s structure and truly believe in…
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Interview With Sylvia Schedelbauer
I firmly believe that films can make a difference. Films can communicate, they can connect. Films can produce a different mode of knowing. Films can change the fabric of one’s…
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Interview with Graham Swon
As a filmmaker, but I am continually amazed and often jealous of novelists. Their limitations are merely their own imagination, skill and time, whereas a film is confined by many…
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Interview with James Benning
Sometimes, all those images gather together at night when I’m dead tired, and I think, “Oh, that’s a film”.
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Interview with Wang Bing
When I am shooting, I have to be very close to each character I am filming. I need to be close to them to fully document their stories and ensure…
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A Conversation with Gürcan Keltek about “New Dawn Fades”
There were moments in this film when I said, ‘The Gods of Cinema are with us!’ However, we were a fully organized fictional film crew and intervened in reality when…
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