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The cinema was an explosion of my love for reality.
Pier Paolo Pasolini B: 1922 / N: Italian

The films of Italian polymath Pier Paolo Pasolini demonstrate that the term 'reality' can be subject to multiple definitions. The concept of his 1964 film The Gospel According to St Matthew was to pre…

As a filmmaker, you have to believe in the people - in their power - because if you do not believe in the people, then why do you make film... for what? Béla Tarr B: 1955 / N: Hungarian

Hungarian writer-director Béla Tarr plays 45pm genre film records at 33rpm speed. He uses cuts very sparingl…

AN INTERVIEW WITH ISABEL SANDOVAL

'I feel like the best films are essentially a Rorschach test!

You're interested in something you refer to as 'sensual cinema' - could you define what that is?

For me, sensual cinema is really about desire. And I think that's one of the main reasons why w…

What is the essence of the director's work? We could define it as sculpting in time.
Andrei Tarkovsky
B: 1932 / N: Russian

Russian maestro Andrei Tarkovsky made films about why life is worth living and why death is worth dying. He took up the mantle of locating meaning in the evanescence of …

'Film can't just be a long line of bliss. There's something we all like about the human struggle!'
David Lynch
B: 1946 / N: American

To source ideas and images for his films, David Lynch plunges into the pool of his subconscious via transcendental meditation. What makes his work so exception…