The Selfish Giant Revision

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/oct/20/selfish-giant-barnard-set-visit

https://www.facebook.com/SelfishGiantFilm

http://birds-eye-view.co.uk/2013/10/23/interview-the-selfish-giant-filmmaker-clio-barnard/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-26048993

Clio Barnard's view of the future of cinema

Dazed Digital: What’s your take on current British filmmaking?

Clio Barnard: It’s a really exciting time in British cinema, partly because of how diverse the films and filmmakers are – there’s not just one school of filmmaking emerging. I saw 12 Years a Slave and I thought it was phenomenal for Steve McQueen to be the person to tell that story, I’m incredibly pleased he has that ambition. It’s also exciting that more female voices are being heard – 
I don’t usually bang on about that, but I think it’s significant. Joanna Hogg, Carol Morley, Lynne Ramsay, Andrea Arnold... Penny Woolcock was a big inspiration for me.

Dazed Digital: How about the future of cinema 
in general?

Clio Barnard: I find it really hard to speculate about that. But the future of image-making has been completely revolutionised. Kids from a very early age now understand moving images in a way that generations before didn’t and can manipulate them. And they’ve got access to equipment. My son knows how to use Final Cut Pro and he’s 12! And he shoots stuff all the time.


“The big screen will always have a place. 
Nothing
replaces sitting with an audience and being immersed by the sound as much as the image”

Dazed Digital: Do new platforms and technology appeal to you? You shot your 2006 short Dark Glass on a mobile phone.

Clio Barnard: There was a really specific reason – it’s about domestic photography and how a plethora of images might change films and photography in relation to memory. But the big screen will always have a place. I don’t think anything replaces that experience of sitting with an audience and being immersed by the sound as much as the image.

Dazed Digital: So you don’t advocate watching films on phones or tablets?

Clio Barnard: It’s not the best place, is it? But it depends what the film is – I was happy to watch Bridesmaids on an aeroplane and really enjoyed it. But then I also watched Amour on a plane and I know it diminished that and I need to watch it properly. By the way, Bridesmaids is a brilliant film too... (laughs)

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