Jana Leo, My Neighbor, 2002 – 2011 Artist’s statement: She used to live across the hallway and was the first person I related to when I moved to Chinatown in 2002. She came into my apartment when assembling furniture She pushed the door, smile and look around talking in Chinese and sit in a chair… Read More neighbors
Interviewer: Do you ever examine yourself to say, ‘why are you so fearless, compared to other people?’ AW: [laughing] I am so fearful! That’s not fearless. I am more fearful than other people, maybe. That’s why I act more brave: because I know the danger is really there. If you don’t act, the danger becomes… Read More the danger is really there
Bamako (2006) dir. Abderrahmane Sissako The storytelling that thrives for a long time in the milieu of work—the rural, the maritime, and the urban—is itself an artisan form of communication, as it were. It does not aim to convey the pure essence of the thing, like information or a report. It sinks the thing into… Read More just stories
In your opinion what effects can films have on society? What can a filmmaker do for society? He can do a lot. Entertain. Tell stories in such a way that the moviegoer is entertained and afterwards is no stupider; he can make various things clear to him or make him want to get various things… Read More tell stories
