Deep Cut: A Film Podcast

The sixth of seven (6-7!!!) director interviews Wilson conducted at this year’s Hong Kong International Film Festival is with the British, experimental director Ben Rivers, creator of the child-focused, post-apocalyptic exploration Mare’s Nest. Rivers speaks about giving child actors the freedom to be themselves onscreen, receiving Don Delillo’s blessing to stage his play The Word for Snow in the film, and the intention behind his depiction of an adultless world.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
02:03 Interview begins
03:32 Origins of Mare's Nest
06:07 Don Delillo
09:52 Children performing adult routines
13:14 Documentary versus fiction
19:09 Film-within-film
22:06 Moon walks into the past
25:02 Location filming
28:48 SEA filmmakers
31:25 Outro

The fifth of seven director interviews Wilson conducted at this year’s Hong Kong International Film Festival is with the thoughtfully impassioned Vladlena Sandu, director of the autobiographical drama Memory. Sandu shares her influences from Tarkovsky to Pajaranov, praises her collaborators on this film, how hypnotherapy helped her make this film, and her strong anti-war convictions.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
02:15 Interview starts
04:03 Making Sandu happen
07:47 Childhood trauma through film
10:25 Personal truth
17:34 Motifs and repetition
23:48 Child actors
30:14 Production design
35:54 Influences: Tarkovsky, Parajanov, Pasolini
40:19 Ending of the film

The fourth of seven director interviews Wilson conducted at this year's Hong Kong International Film Festival is with Edwin, director of the fantasy horror Sleep No More. Edwin shares his wide range of influences from Indonesian cinema history and beyond, speaks to his film’s commentary on labor rights, shares his own Deep Cut pick, and… shares a sing-along with Wilson?!
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
04:04 Indoneisan horror film history
07:30 Edwin's influences
09:00 Indonesian politics and labor
15:38 Scary scenes
17:57 Casting
20:34 Special effects
23:12 Edwin's future horror
24:39 Edwin's Deep Cut Pick
25:57 Sing-along

The third of seven director interviews Wilson conducted at this year's Hong Kong International Film Festival is with the outgoing, reflective Ang Geck Geck, director of the semi-autobiographical childhood drama Ah Girl. Wilson connects with the Singaporean director over the long road to producing Ah Girl, the research with social workers that informed the script, the parts of her own childhood and family that are in the film, and her own Deep Cut Pick.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
02:32 Interview begins
07:03 Research with social workers
10:56 Child actors
15:09 Language
19:55 Personal history
26:00 Ending of the film
27:44 Next film
28:53 Deep Cut Pick
30:05 Outro

The second of seven director interviews Wilson conducted at this year's Hong Kong International Film Festival is with the thoughtful, patient Ildikó Enyedi, director of the equally thoughtful and patient Silent Friend. Wilson connects with the Hungarian director over her pensive approach to the natural world, the special place that HKIFF holds in her experience as a filmmaker, and her admiration of star Tony Leung… whose interview with Wilson is also at the end of this episode!
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
03:03 - Enyedi interview
04:16 - Working with Tony Leung
06:15 - Enyedi's relationship with trees
07:32 - Academia and science
09:36 - Intercutting timelines
12:25 - Dreams, psychedelics, ecology
15:02 - Production process
17:08 - Casting a tree
19:41 - Other Enyedi films
21:34 - Further explorations
23:13 - Enyedi's Deep Cut
25:48 - Tony Leung Interview
28:13 - Outro