interview
Women Cinemakers I am very interested in non verbal communication, therefore I decided to have this film orchestrated just by sound and body language. With that decision I started collecting every sound and frequency I could find that made me feel something. I was recording soundscapes, recording friends talking and singing, sampling some great people from interviews and speeches, sampling music and so on. Then for the first part the talented Andrea Mainardi and I placed everything together and then the wonderful Arielle Esther took over and gave her final angelic feminine touch to the whole sound. This was a true pleasure to work with sound, it made me understand how crucial it is for me and how connected I am to this medium. With all that said, it is inevitable that with having that sound, location and actors but no words, the body and its gestures are playing a very important role here. It gives so much more space for meaning and layers it even more, a drama can become a comedy- or can become even a tragedy. It all depends on you as the director (together with the choreographer) on where you would like to take it. Mexican artist Gabriel Orozco once stated, "the artists' role differs depending on which sociopolitical system they are living in.' How do you consider the role of artists and filmmakers in our unstable