Albert Serra goes deep on his filmmaking style and the production of Pacifiction in this interview with our lou_kicks:
by Aleksey German. Then I was trying to think of more recent films–which, for me, were not shocking…we’ll see, we’ll see.PacifictionWell, first, I go as poetic as I can. Inside the parameters that this is a script, it has to be used for financing mostly, and then, of course, for production on our side. For me, it’s very sad when you write a script and there is something good there and banality gets in. I cannot stand it. It’s boring.
I avoid cliché. You can say the film is violent. You can say the film is whatever. Everybody can say whatever of the film. But there is not one single cliché of specific moments. Of course, it’s impossible to avoid cliché. The subject is a cliché. Dialogue is a cliché. But, the reactions come out of physical moments. I don’t have a script for the reasons that I prefer not to have very concrete dialogue.
My first film. It was very simple. I was making a film and I realized that there are very subtle things that you cannot repeat. Or, that if you try to repeat so much will get lost on the way. The same scene, it’s not the same if you shoot it from another angle or if you shoot one character or the other. It changes a lot. So, you know, I felt that there was something at that moment, but sometimes you cannot capture it. And you cannot prepare it. And you cannot stop.
Yes! You know, they were very experimental and everything with the hi-fi. And they went bankrupt and broke several times because of that. Once, for sure. But I think several times because they were experimenting so much with hi-fi. This was the perception, you know? This was to really be inside something important and spending the money and really going for it. Nowadays–as a friend of mine said–everything is about compressed music, you know? Compressed mp3s, portable.
There are one or two moments, but in general, no. We might be there shooting something else, and I am shooting all the time. So, if we see outside that it’s the magic hour, we pick up the camera and put it outside. Because we are constantly shooting all the time. Early morning, it’s not so easy because we like to start very late in the morning. I don’t like to wake up early for the shooting of the films unless it’s necessary for production reasons.
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