What were the starting points and initial ideas behind White Shoe Station?
White Shoe Station is loosely inspired by the story of the mysterious man who in 2005 became known as the 'Piano man'. A collaboration with fiction writer Tilman Rammstedt and composer Avi Tchamni, the film also draws inspiration from the posmodernist tradtion of re-photography and the Surrealist idea of Automatic writing, merging fragments of found images with a disjointed story and setting the film in an unknown place and time.
Could you maybe share an important/funny/moving/surprising anecdote related to the making-of the film?
When the orginial 16mm negatives for WSS were developed, I received a call from a guy at the postproduction company I worked with. He told me that he was very sorry but that there was no point in picking the stuff up as it was all underexposed, had flaring throughout and they had thrown it all away... eek... Things could only get better from this point.
What do you do when not making films?
Watch films.
What would you like to say to your audience before seeing White Shoe Station?
Nothing at all before the audience views the film.
What are you currently working on?
I am currently researching for Snowclone, a film about a woman (D) with something like dissociative identity disorder. Set in the context of a big mean corporation, which has driven the main protagonist to take on a separate identity as a sort of last resort and a way out of the trap which she finds herself in, the story will focus on the inner world of D and the sense of emancipation which she finds in forgetting. The mood and imagery is going to be dark with a gritty city feeling and I intend to work with a fiction writer to develop the monologue for the film.