Interviews

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.
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 they are made, defined, by human beings.
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 film.
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 occasion, we had the opportunity to interview Jaap Guldemond, the exhibition director and curator at Eye Filmmuseum.
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.
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. I am very happy if people find their ways to “inhabit“ my films.
Interview with Jonathan Rosenbaum

I like to think that to write about cinema potentially means to write about everything.
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 to lose a lot of things too, to really get to a point where you are happier.
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 it before I step into the darkroom to begin the arduous and time-consuming process of filmmaking.