Interview (1979)

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Interview is a 1979 Canadian short live-action animated documentary film directed by Caroline Leaf and Veronika Soul, produced by David Verrall. The film is a record of a working day in the lives of two women filmmakers, sometimes described as "an autobiographical collaboration", though both filmmakers are discussing the other woman. The film is also seen as a study of female friendship, the women relating their perceptions of each other through their respective animation techniques, "each creating a visual portrait of the other based on characteristic gestures and impressions."

Production

Caroline Leaf moved to Canada from the U.S. in 1970, eventually settling in Montréal where she was invited to work for the National Film Board of Canada, and where fellow American expatriate Veronika Soul had also been living since 1970 or 1971.

Leaf recalled some twenty years later that the idea for Interview began as "murmurs in the corridors at the Film Board that there was going to be a series of films about the animation directors" at the Board's animation unit: "I thought it would be fun to do one about ourselves." It was something of a departure for Leaf: this would be the first time she was not taking "someone else's story": "I was making my own story with Veronica." Leaf was "bl…

Leaf and Soul "interviewed each other extensively" and then selected different parts to animate. The released film is a combination of still photographs, live action and animation, something Leaf had never before attempted.

Leaf's animation technique is paint on glass, while Soul's is based on collage. Leaf was quoted as saying her animations of allowed for subtle qualities which could not be achieved with a camera. She found editing the film particularly exciting "because the 'chunks' that fit together could have gone in any kind of order."

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