INTERVIEW WITH ARAMISOVA
> You study at the FAMU film school in Prague and your film was tutored by Věra Chytilová and Jasmina Blažević. Did they interfere in any way or let you do your own thing?
Věra Chytilová and Jasmina Blažević complement each other wonderfully. While Jasmina is more analytical, Věra Chytilová advocates auteur film, she would have us make our films the way we want, not to let ourselves be bound by any rules, and focus on the essence of what it is we want to tell the audience. By dismissing rules, she does not suggest that we forget about our viewers. But even if someone does not respect the audience, she would let them make such a film despite her personal disagreement. Věra Chytilová is the embodiment of freedom for me and that suits me well in my work.
> Your film brings together modern film language and elements of the Czechoslovak New Wave. What attracted you about the poetic style of the New Wave and why do you think it is applicable even today?
What I personally like about the Czechoslovak and the French New Waves is that they were not violent movies. They were movies about specific people, about individuals. Even if a film dealt with a social issue, it was rendered by a personal, individual story. The actors were often cheerful, relaxed; they smiled more than they do now and the films made an impression of lightness. New Wave films inspired the audience and the audience, in turn, enjoyed living after they walked out of the movie theater. In present day cinema, I feel a tremendous, often artificial effort at establishing tension and evoking emotions in the audiences regardless of their kind: As if the emotions were more important than what the filmmaker wants to express.
> In your films, you address relationship issues. Do you think that young people today have a more responsible attitude towards sexuality than it may seem?
According to the latest demographic curves, they are way too responsible in terms of sex. I am not sure if an attitude of foolishness and spontaneity is perhaps better than burdensome responsibility in the matter of sex. What has been your experience?
Probably what you mean by your question is, whether there is today a connection between sex and love, whether sex has not turned into a purely physical act. I think that the efforts of physicians and sexologists to find the G-spot are a lost cause; the G-spot is located in one’s soul.
> What are your future plans, what are you currently working on?
Cagey Tigers is from my second year at FAMU. I am a third year student now, preparing my bachelor thesis film. I will shoot on 35 mm for the first time and I am curious myself whether I will have enough courage for improvisation, like I did with 16 mm film. All I can say about the movie is that it would be about friendship and misunderstandings, about the impossibility of explanations once the verdict has been delivered.
I have also been writing a longer film called Kids from the East about a children’s gang and the parents who cannot reign them in. It is similarly about friendship.
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published: 06.05.2011
updated: 09.05.2011