Meet the housewife from hell! A cleaning instruction video in a gothic environment,
combined with Mario Bava horror, Latin-American psychedelia, Wolfgang the Cat
and the not so easily removable brain-matter of the husband. Successful play
with genres with photo tricks not seen since the days of Lars von Trier's 35-mm
films.
Jessica Nilsson was born in Sweden in 1965. After seven years at the
Royal Academy of Art she graduated in 1995 from the Academy of Film in Denmark.
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A rioter in a middle-European town throws a cobblestone against the opposition.
He misses his goal and the stone continues around the world, ending where he
least expects. A fast-paced comment on the stone as the oldest weapon and the
coherence between human conflicts all over the world.
Susanne Horizon-Fränzel was born in 1959 in Bad Godesberg, Germany.
Since 1985 she has directed several acclaimed short films with political messages.
35 mm etching, pixelation, doll-films...
Filled with references to Matt Groening, Jim Henson and Nick Park, this masterpiece
without dialogue is the best thing that has happened to poultry since the Green
Party. An extraordinary animated short about broilers, deprivation of liberty
and melancholy.
Luis Briceno was born in 1971 in Osorna, Chile. Has lived in France
since 1992. he works, besides the making of short films, as a DJ and making
hot Chilean dishes. Caged birds cannot fly is his first short within the profession...
The Battleship Potemkin in a shoot -em-up tale of armed sailors fighting for
a liberated Russia against the evil Tsarist regime. Graphic design by Sergei's
greatgrandson Sean Eisenstein results in some of the most inspiring and revolutionary
video montage ever.
Endan Hughes is northern ireland's most popular short film director
who has received a lot of international attention for two pop-culture short-film
experiments Flying Saucer Rock 'n' Roll and Comm-Raid on the Potemki...
A fascinating and spectacular computer-animated silent film about the always-bad
combination of weapons and drugs. Big beat accompanies Junky's nightmarish trip
in the rough junkie pad, at the same time as his girlfriend knocks on the door...
Resident Evil meets Requiem For A Dream.
Shimogiri Nozomu was born in 1979 in Tokyo, Japan. He is a computer
animator with several computer game animations to his credit. Comments on the
growing drug-problems in the home country with t...
Award-winning Scandanavian stage and screen star (born in Tokyo
to Norwegian parents), Liv Ullmann is best known for her ground-breaking work
with Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman. Beginning with Persona (1966) and
her own personal favorite Bergman film, Scenes From A Mariage(1974),
Ullmann has grown not only as an actor, but in the last ten years as a film
director, most recently with a Bergman-scripted examination of marital
infidelity, named Faithless. Interviewed by Lisa Nessels...
An overview of the career of Laurence Fishburne as part of a tribute
honoring his acting career. The festival featured his directorial film debut
with the screening of Once in the Life.
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Academy-award winning cinematographer for Who's Afraid of
Virginia Wolf?(1966) and Bound For Glory(1976) as well as approximately 50
other feature films including John Sayles' Matewan and more recently
Limbo, Wexler produced, wrote, shot and directed Medium Cool (1969). A
native of Chicago, he directed several documentaries including Bus Rider's
Union, presented at this year's festival. Haskell Wexler is the president
of the jury for the Chicago Film Festival 2000. Ray Privett and...
Bob Swaim is an American in Paris who's managed the unique feat
of making a film career for himself on both sides of the Atlantic. After
studying film in Paris, he directed a series of award-winning shorts before
turning to features in 1977. His second picture, La Balance won the César
as Best French Film for 1982. Whether directing Michael Caine and
Sigourney Weaver in Half Moon Street Rob Lowe and Meg Tilly in "Masquerade"
(1988), or more recently John Hurt in The Climb (1998), Bo...
From the ripe old age of 14, when he was hired to appear
in Coppola's Appocalypse Now, until he played Othello at 34, Laurence
Fishburne has always looked older than his actual age.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times critic, takes Fishburne through his
acting career in movies that include the more recent Matrix, School Daze,
Boy'z In the Hood as well as his knockout performance as Ike Turner in "What's Love Got to Do With It?
Fishburne is the recipient of the Career Achievement Award and pr...
Feminist filmmaker Marleen Gorris, who won an Oscar for Antonia's Line, has just made her first film with a male lead, The Luzhin Defence. Marleen talks to FilmFestivals.com about the relationships between genius, chess and filmmaking....
In Timecode, Mike Figgis pushes the boundaries of cinema once more with the first commercially released feature filmed in one continuous take. He talks to filmfestivals.com about making the film, as well as music, anarchy, the Internet and his next projects....
The city of Edinburgh shows off all its colors during the festival....
In the first interview - A History, Khondji remembers his childhood, early films (where he played Dracula) and studying in New York. Responsible for the unforgettable look of Jeunet and Caro's films (Delicatessen, The City of Lost Children, Alien Resurrection) Khondji most recently worked with Danny Boyle on The Beach and is widely regarded as one of the greatest cinematographers working today....
Khondji talks about his inspirations, lighting, digital filmmaking and the now famous Bleach-Bypass process that created the startling look in Seven....
With Purely Belter Mark Herman returns to the working class environments of Brassed Off and Little Voice. In this interview, Mark talks about making the film, casting the lead roles and his introduction to film through animation....
by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu. Both stars of the film won the Best Actor award at Chicago 2000 last month, where the film won the Grand prize and the Audience Choice Award. Following this success, the film went to Flanders Film Fest and once again took the Grand Prize....
Trevor Wood is the director of the oddly named Dry Hump Tilt, an independent Canadian feature that had some trouble getting into the Perspectives Canada section of the Toronto Film Festival. Wood blames this on what he perceives as a quota system for entrants, as all provinces have to be represented. In typically Canadian fashion however, his work was appreciated elsewhere, and the London Raindance Festival accepted his fim into the Canadian section of their program. Here he talks about his firs...
Rollercoaster Director. Born in Alberta and raised in British Columbia, Canada, Smith is a cinematographer, editor and director. He is a graduate of Simon Fraser University and attended Norman Jewison s Canadian Film Centre as Director resident. Rollercoaster is his first feature. It is a film shot in 1998 which has toured the world festivals to critical acclaim and awards but\ndid not land a distributor. Hence Smith is releasing the film himself. Here he discusses coming to terms with the indus...
The 15th edition of the Fort Lauderdale Festival got under way on October 16th with its Mini Series program. As the haven of thousands of college students during Spring break, well known for its tropical climate and miles of gorgeous beaches, Fort Lauderdale is also gaining a growing reputation as a film town with one of the most active film commissions in the United States. Fest Director Gregory von Hausch met with us at the onset of the event, which is noted in the Guiness Book of World Record...
French screenwriter and director Virginie Wagon co-wrote with Eric Zonka the award-winning Dream Life of Angels in 1998. Although she has directed for TV, Le secret is her first feature film and the winner of the Tournage Award for best French film at the 17th Avignon Film Festival....
Shadow of the Vampire, directed by Merhige, tells the tale of F.W. Murnau, who directed the silent film classic Nosferatu. The film won the Tournage Award for best American film at the Avignon Film Festival this year....
Often confused with Claude Chabrol (the two look alike) and Ingmar Bergman (their styles are similar), this Bergmann has directed stage productions in New York for the last 20 years. Trifling With Fate is his second feature film. His first, Milk and Money (1997) also premiered at the French-American Film Workshop in Avignon....
Olivier Jahan is long associated with the Cannes Film Festival, particularly for being the second in command of Directors Fortnight. He has finally made his first feature film Faites commes si je n'étais pas là, which he wrote and directed....
Circle by Jafar Panahi, The Grand winner at Venice 2000, pleads openly against the restrictions of freedom in contemporary Iran. The story follows four women who have been sent to prison for petty crimes....
