Interviews

Marie Kristiansen’s “Moo” is a visceral, dynamic, and thought-provoking fashion film, designed to advertise a rather unconventional type of bag and an even more unconventional type of beauty. Kristiansen, a photographer, director, and conceptual artist, shows us an older woman…

Rui Hu’s animated “Metropolitan Triangle Garden” is a fascinating exploration of known sculptures in the Metropolitan Museum. He juxtaposes physical destruction with a destruction caused by software glitches, distortions, and misused simulations, building a world that is at once classically…

In Conny Karlsson Lundgren’s Koncert Në Vitin 2014, historical moments, both fictional and real, come together in a mausoleum rife with history. He films Lepurushja, a young queer Aleanca affiliate, reclaiming a traditionally conformative space as hir own and thus,…

David Bertram’s “Don’t Sing” is a delightfully bizarre juxtaposition of fantasy and reality, following five people as they come to terms with their deepest and darkest desires. Through his work as both photographer and filmmaker, Bertram brings to us his…

Wong Ping places experiences one might or might never have into the exclusive multi-hued worlds of his films, but always in their most twisted forms. VAEFF will screen “An Emo Nose” and “Raw Prada Avenue” at our festival this year.…

Monteith McCollum’s “SoundPrint” is a mesmerizing and rhythmic combination of found and ambient sounds and rephotographed images. Monteith excels at combining his visual and sonic elements with a performative third factor, lending a touch of spontaneity to every screening. Here…

Carla Gannis is an inter-media artist whose work reflects the transformative nature of our time. In her piece “Garden of Emoji Delights”, she uses “emojis” to re-invent Bosch’s famous triptych “Garden of Earthly Delights” by replacing religious vocabulary with secular and…