Svetovozn· Director, screenwriter and musician Emir Kusturica visited the Art Film Fest in Piestany, where he will receive the Golden Camera award for significant contribution to the cinema.
You are very busy - organizing festival in your village Drvengrad, that you build yourself and you are also caring of. You also have a music band No Smoking Orchestra, with which you make concerts throughout the world with your family. When do you find the time for the shooting ?
EK : The film about the destruction will be in three years. But now I make a film in Canada. It will be about two criminals who get into the woods, where a drama is happening. It's an absurd story about contemporary life. I'm also still working on a screenplay for the film about the Mexican hero Pancho Villa, who will be played the Puerto Rican actor and film producer Benicio del Toro.
Your films are often located in the environment of the Balkans, where you come from. In the seventies, however, under the former government, you moved to Prague, where you attended FAMU. You know the culture and history of Czech-Slovakia. Have you ever thought of the treatment this environment?
EK : It is actually the same as what I'm doing well. My philosophy is such a film, what you have here. It's a look at life with a certain lag. Lies in the formal approach, such as the Czech skepticism, irony. Just look at Czech life that we see in literature and in films that were made earlier. I can say that even if my movies run at exactly you will always stay that Czech students.
You've already lived in cities like New York, Paris and Belgrade. Finally, you went to Serbia, where you build your own village Drvengrad. Don't you feel that way you lose touch with reality ? Or is it deliberately?
EK : This is utopia. In Drvengrad I have all the time, I will have nothing to do in town. It is such a new phase in my life. It is the life of ancient Greece, where the city was what people needed. Not a city that creates life, but people who make life in the city.
Interview by Léa Podstanick, translated by Matthieu Dhennin
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