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