Please tell us about the projects you worked on before making ‘we pretend not to see’. How did you start, and how did you learn to make films?
I discovered my passion for filmmaking through self-made YouTube videos. I then made my first documentary with my sister about our grandma and a mysterious plane crash in 1945. After that, I went to the University of Art and Design Linz, Austria to study Time Based Media to expand my knowledge. Here my films became more and more experimental and I discovered my passion for essayistic and experimental film.
Tell us about ‘we pretend not to see’. How do you describe it?
“We pretend not to see” is a movie triggered by real events, created by the need to express these feelings. It is an ironic and playful movie. Fragments of thoughts pass by and symbolize a maelstrom of constant overthinking. I was living in France at the time, so I shot a lot of scenes there.
Please tell us about your favorite filmmakers.
I really like French filmmakers like Agnes Varda or Chris Marker. I also like discovering interesting films by rather unknown filmmakers.
If you were given a good budget, what would be your ideal project?
I wish to do a feature film where all my fantasies can become reality;)
What was the hardest part of making ‘we pretend not to see’.
Clearly the montage. I took a lot of film footage - toy camera, self-developed Super 8 film and cell phone footage - from my archive. The challenge was to combine all of this with my self-written text. In the end, I only filmed one shot afterwards and everything came together like a puzzle.
If possible, tell us about your next work. What plans do you have for your future work?
I'm currently finishing my new experimental film. It's 16 minutes long and it's about the feeling of being lost, which is metaphorized with different aggregate states of water. At the end there is a wild drift with self-painted and scratched 16mm film material.
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