Friedl vom Gröller (Photo: Maria Meseguer) "Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, a German philosopher from the 18th Century, said: 'the most entertaining surface on earth is the human face'. It’s the same case for me. Everywhere I am I look at human faces and the interest for...
How did you start to deal with personal things in your films? I had a teacher, Rick Hancox, who discussed how in order to make a film about the world, your first need to look at yourself. I had a lot of family photographs and I decided that I would go into these...
“Most of the experimental work demands something from the audience: patience, interpretation, mixed feelings. People aren’t used to that and get frustrated and impatient. But, if you are ready to search your expectations, you would experience much deeper levels of...
Tell us about your first works and your link with A Coruña. The proposal of Le Paradis is about recovering my first works in front of the camera, not behind, and closing this circle to relate them to the time when I still lived in Galicia since I was partly working...
THE FILM AND THE EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA When I started at university we would work mostly on video but thinking about working on film. Video was not a semi-professional medium, it was used in television. Perhaps when Dogma began in the 90s it began to be used in another...
"My name is Chris Kennedy, I’m a filmmaker from Toronto. I’m representing “Ways of Seeing”, which is on Sunday evening at 5pm My work looks at the way we frame images, and the way we understand things through our cultural perceptions. And it looks at cinema as a kind...
"I create works because they give me pleasure and satisfaction as well as a sense of inner balance. A work comes into being because of personal necessity. Creating a work for me is like breathing in and breathing out." Ernie Gehr Ernie Gehr. Programe 2. CGAI – 02/06 –...
"To me editing, which is the key of building a film, works as when you are editing a text. Editing, in video, is called the same, and I believe that has a lot to do with writing. In some way, it's also ordering a series of ideas, stating a thesis, at least asking...
Where does come from your interest in phantasmagorias? Can you tell us a bit more about Étienne-Gaspard Robert and how his work relates to yours? We were reading about pre-cinematic forms and the different types of magic lantern shows that were developed before the...