Deep Cut: A Film Podcast

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

The first of 7 director interviews Wilson conducted at this year's Hong Kong International Film Festival. Mary Stephen is a legend in world cinema, having worked as an editor for Éric Rohmer and Ann Hui, and being a celebrated film director in her own right. Wilson chats with Mary about her latest film, the personal documentary PALIMPSEST: THE STORY OF A NAME — its twisty narrative structure, its relationship to memory and family, and her deep ties to the city of Hong Kong. They also dig into her remarkable career as an editor, from switching between film and digital, to her creative collaborations with Rohmer, Ann Hui, and Jessey Tsang, and what she carries from that work into her own filmmaking.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
03:08 Mary presenting her film to Hong Kong audiences
05:03 Palimpsest's twisty narrative
07:04 How being an editor influenced her filmmaking 
08:25 Narration and narrative in the film
10:27 Unused archive footage 
12:27 Mary's relationship with her family
15:11 Mary’s relationship with Hong Kong
17:33 Editing: Switching from film to digital
19:20 Working with Eric Rohmer
30:13 Collaborations with Ann Hui and Jessey Tsang
35:41 Working with collaborators as a director herself
38:43 Closing