Filmmakers in conversation
Conversations from the archives, introduced by the journal. Watch or read each interview with its original publisher.
Chantal Akerman on Jeanne Dielman
Paris, 2009. In an interview for Criterion, Akerman revisits the making of her 1975 film, including the decisions behind its largely female crew. Watch the excerpts alongside the film’s domestic routines. Notice how the director’s account of the work changes what you attend to in a kitchen scene.
Watch the Criterion excerptsClaudia Llosa on The Milk of Sorrow
Berlin, 2009. In an interview with The Guardian, the Peruvian filmmaker discusses a story in which the effects of political violence pass from mother to daughter. Read her account alongside the opening song. What can be passed on in a melody even when the listener has never witnessed what the singer remembers?
Read the Guardian interviewFor a conversation with the journal
Filmmakers, editors, sound designers and researchers can propose a conversation through the founder’s correspondence form. Include the work you would like to discuss and one decision in its making that you would like readers to understand.
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