interview
Women Cinemakers condition. It is not easy to define a work that came from one’s own effort, but that I find it important that the work has the ability to evoke and engage someone into thinking certain things through, or even to solely react emotionally to its presence in some way one finds significant, transcending beyond the immediate aesthetic level which is partially there to frame certain things. I find that the way one understands and perceives things differs from another, as such I’m of the opinion that the experience should be taken as openly and subjectively as possible, I really want my work(s) to initiate some kind of interaction, not dictation. features Elegantly composed, stunning landscape cinematography and we daresay that each shot is carefully orchestrated to work within the overall structure: what were your aesthetic decisions that informed your process? Firstly, I thank you for the kind words on my work! I started by using as many reference points as possible, rummaging through old photographs, archival footage, historical moments, things I shot with my camera two or four years ago and a host of other things that I find impossible to remember at this moment. I also “hunted” for ways to creatively alter footage or photographs as to establish a baseline aesthetic in order to have the ability to employ that as an adjoining factor between different elements. I then shot plenty of footage on which I tried following an instinctive and “non deliberate” approach exactly because nothing in the underlying tone of this work wants to establish anything concrete, it is more of a free flow of states.