An interview with the Director of Anemoia, screening at the 2024 Mosaic World Film Festival.
Referring to nostalgia for something one has never experienced, Anemoia follows three characters while they fall in and out of synchronicity, unclear of what lies within reach and what is non-tangible.
1. What drew you to create this film?
The fickle reality of connections always struck me with a tender emotion of melancholia; how great moments pass without any notice and suddenly time has disappeared into something that may as well have been a dream.
The idea that the world is intangible is more relevant now than ever, as invisible strings and signals in the air seem to be increasingly connecting us to our surroundings, just a click or a tap away.
Additionally, in an age of fake news and information wars, in an age of increasing general disbelief and doubt, the solid reality seems further away as well. Within the notion that all we perceive contains a probability of illusion, the world may as well be a dream, a train upon which we are simply a passenger, and by attempting to create a dream, I ended up creating Anemoia.
2. What does filmmaking mean to you?
It’s a format and a method of possibilities and illusions, but most of all it’s a trial and error into perspectives. It may take any perspective in any form. The perspective may be that of a toddler, which makes us believe that we are also carrying the form of a toddler, while, when looking into a mirror, we realise that we are in fact a T-Rex, and thus, a different perspective is born with a surprise.
Taking on a different perspective, carrying a different set of eyes, elaborates and unveils the nuances of the world, and that, I believe, is very important, at all times, and will continue to be.
3. What advice would you give students or beginners that want to make films?
The classic advice is a classic: The best way to know how to make a film is by making one. Feel what is right for you, let it touch you, and make it stretch into the world around.
Also, nothing ever goes as planned, don’t expect it to be the case, that is one if the beauties of the process. As the unexpected tends to remain, one might as well embrace it and incorporate it.
4. What films do you watch again and again?
Some guilty pleasures are Blade Runner, No Country for Old Men, The Shining, The Prestige, You Were Never Really Here and Bleu by Kieślowski.
Thank you Andreas!
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