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Pluk the Director
Monday 14 August 2017
“There should be more anal activists”
This year, Pluk de Nacht honors the young Japanese animator Sawako Kabuki with a retrospective. Turns out all her animated shorts are obsessive, transgressive, and rather brilliant. An exclusive interview.
Pluk the Director
Friday 26 August 2016
“The key is to always be honest”
In his second feature-length documentary Mom and Me, Irish filmmaker Ken Wardrop shines a light on the bond between mothers and sons in Oklahoma, which was recently voted the manliest state in the US.
Pluk the Director
Friday 26 August 2016
“The youth decided not to be afraid”
In his debut feature My Revolution Ramzi Bem Sliman stirs the high school comedy up a bit by introducing politics in the classroom: how can you combine political activism with life at school?
Pluk the Director
Wednesday 24 August 2016
“The violent emotions are there, just buried”
The Arnhem edition of Pluk de Nacht kicks off with This Summer Feeling by Mikhaël Hers, which was filmed in Berlin, Paris and New York. “I wanted to escape the landscape of my youth to explore new territories.”
Pluk the Director
Saturday 20 August 2016
“It’s a documentary with fictional characters”
For Illegitimate, Adrian Sitaru experiments with documentary and fiction. “It’s a complicated love story like Romeo and Juliet, but it’s about a forbidden love between siblings.”
Pluk the Director
Wednesday 17 August 2016
“I never killed any of my pets”
In Hugo Bumfeldt, we witness a child caring for his pet as it happens so often: a bit rough, sometimes dangerous but always in a loving way. The twist: the child is an alien, the pet is human. Director Éva Katinka Bognár: “I liked the strange tension between these two contrasting points of view.”
Pluk the Director
Wednesday 17 August 2016
“The end of the world forces you to find meaning in the present”
In Yearbook, Bernardo Britto shows a man tasked with recording everything worthwhile about humanity before the impending end of the world. “I think about the end of the world fairly often. But not in a negative way.”
Pluk the Director
Wednesday 17 August 2016
“Short films show the tip of the iceberg”
Thunder Road gives us an intimate look at a eulogy. We talked to director, screenwriter and actor Jim Cummings about his touching short.
Pluk the Director
Wednesday 17 August 2016
“The most taboo version of Would You Rather possible”
In A Reasonable Request, director Andrew Laurich shows a father and son in an uncomfortable negotiation, to say the least. He tells us about the film.
Pluk the Director
Wednesday 17 August 2016
“The actor only got upset with me once”
Director Calvin Lee Reeder explains the four minutes of weirdness he presents in The Procedure.
Pluk the Director
Tuesday 09 August 2016
“I wanted to see for myself”
A young German woman finds herself in the disaster zone surrounding Fukushima in Doris Dörrie’s Fukushima, mon amour, and strikes up a friendship of sorts with an elderly geisha who refuses to leave her home.
Pluk the Director
Tuesday 09 August 2016
“We treated it like a piece of theatre”
The short film Carousel shows an older man doling out advice only to have it turn around on him. Director Kal Weber tells us how the film was made.
