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\u201cWhy do you film?\u201d In 1987, the French daily Lib\u00e9ration asked this question to 700 filmmakers from around the world, eliciting intriguing responses, for instance, John Huston proposed a counter-question \u201cwhy not?\u201d. The directors in this screening answer it or question the question itself.\u00a0<\/p>\n
You film because you stand on the shoulders of giants to gain a better view of the world and leap into the creative unknown: this is the case in Prelude<\/i><\/a>, which surprisingly reframes D.W. Griffith\u2019s classic Intolerance <\/i>(1916) in today\u2019s nocturnal Kyiv, or Nonexistent<\/i>, Or Like a Flash<\/i><\/a>, a Japanese personal homage to Maya Deren\u2019s experimental classic Meshes of the Afternoon <\/i>(1943).\u00a0<\/p>\n You film to find fiction in memory, as in Tragedy<\/i><\/a> \u2013 a thriller recomposed from home movies. You film because of good intentions, sometimes too far removed from reality, as the Burmese and Iranian protagonists in One Summer Day<\/i>, I Drank Bubble Tea <\/i><\/a>remind us. You film the traces of what is not or no longer visible \u2013 cinema tickets as proof of the years of dreams spent in a Finnish movie theatre in The Ghost Feel Hour<\/i><\/a> or Jean-Luc Godard’s last cigar before his death at home in Rolle Workshop, a Journey<\/i><\/a>. 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