Interviews
Ramin Bahrani / Liu Jiayin

Kurzer Hinweis auf Interviews mit zwei der interessantesten jüngeren FilmemacherInnen derzeit. Zum einen spricht Colin Marshall bei 3quarksdaily mit Ramin Bahrani (Chop Shop; Goodbye Solo), der als nächstes interessanter Weise einen Western dreht; kurzer Auszug, in dem Bahrani darüber spricht, was ihn als Filmemacher antreibt:

Recently on NPR there was someone who was going across America talking to people about how the recession has impacted them. I’m jealous of these jobs. Why should I make a film about a young guy who likes to read books and make movies? Sounds really boring to me. I love to learn about new people, different experiences. Even the western I’ve been researching for a year – what a joy to learn more about that time period in American history and to visit historical sites and real landscapes and to encounter as many people as possible to talk to them about that time. I feel lucky that I can do that. It’s that curiosity that helps keep me engaged in the story and lights that fire to want to make that film. I can’t wait to see the western, you know?

Und Liu Jiayin, deren Debütfilm Oxhide ein Meisterwerk war (in dieser sehr ernstzunehmenden Liste der besten chinesischen Filme der Nullerjahre auf Platz sieben) und deren Nachfolger Oxhide 2 (Lukas Foerster schrieb für uns aus Locarno darüber) mindestens ebenso interessant klingt. Peter Rist hat sie für Offscreen interviewt:

We tried to shoot everything in strict continuity. The dumplings that are being boiled in the 8th shot and the ones we are eating in the 9th shot, are exactly the same. And they didn’t taste good at all.