The director of Make Up plans a better day of the directors’ first films, with food and hot chocolate to calm the nerves between screenings.
Last modified August 18, 2020 10.07 BST
For more than five years, I’ve seen the first movies obsessively.My wife, on several occasions, has prayed for the moment when we could stop.But despite all your imperfections, those are some of the most exciting and brave movies I’ve ever seen.I have seen, and my festival would celebrate them with all their wobbly seduction.
The first time I publicly planned one of my works, I arrived enthusiastically with my mother to place a disused construction in a workplace in a debris box.We sat in a convention room that echoed and entertained our eyes like a ghostly edition of my film broadcast on a school back projector..
As a souvenir of this, my festival will be located in a deserted building, designed through Fritz Lang.Robert Wiene (Dr. Caligari’s Office) would take care of the interiors and Dolthrough would live up to all that technique.
Getting other people to watch the first videos is difficult, so they pay you the minimum wage to attend and settle you on site (Kubrick designed the rooms).
David Lynch’s Eraserhead: the film that allowed anyone with a camera to pass out and do it for themselves.
Jurors in criminal trials give tougher verdicts when they haven’t eaten for a while, so to give the film the most productive opportunity, this festival is planned according to their physical needs.
8am: You wake up when absurd, dreamlike movies like I lost my body through Jérémy Clapin, Sweetie through Jane Campion or Harmony Korine’s Gummo are projected into your room to remind you that you’re in your darkest subconscious’s café.
breakfast
11 am: At breakfast, you will be taken to remote lands: the Bedouin mystery through Naji Abu Nowar, Theeb, the Atlantic revolutionaries through Mati Diop or Moon through Duncan Jones.
lunch break
2pm: We will enjoy those few hours of alert with challenging movies like Ryan Coogler’s heartbreaking Fruitvale Station, Steve McQueen’s Hunger or Clio Barnard’s The Arbor.
Tea and cake
5pm: Afternoon depression is overcome through crazy videos like Peter Jackson’s Bad Taste, new comedies like Yes, God, Yes through Karen Maine, old favorites like Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?And crazy wonders like Krisha through Trey Shults.
Dinner
8pm: Art and serious dishes because you’re thinking after dinner.Rungano Nyoni’s unique I Am Not a Witch, Joanna Hogg’s Scalpel-sharp Unrelated or Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy disturb The Tribe.
Coffee
11pm: Something scary to keep you awake: Go out through Jordan Peele, Under the Shade through Babak Anvari, Raw, Julia Ducournau’s vegetarian cannibal movie or old Donnie Darko.
Midnight sandwich
1:00 a.m.: We’ll relieve your nerves with hot chocolate and the rhythmic excitement of Céline Sciamma’s synchronized swimming debut, Water lilies, Anna Rose Holmer’s dance glow, Eva Riley’s tender Perfect 10 or, one of my blocking discoveries, Chytilov’s lyrics.masterpiece Something Different from Chytilov.
First and only: for administrators whose beginnings were considered so terrible, their careers ended before they started, then they have to write 25 things they liked in the film.
Anyone with popcorn is locked in a soundproof closet.
With this calendar, I don’t think there’s time.