16TH DOCS AGAINST GRAVITY FILM FESTIVAL
The director of "Anthropocene: The Human Epoch" talked about shooting a documentary. She doesn't believe in preaching or in writing a script. Basically, when the material's ready, she goes in for 1 year and thinks what to do with it. The schedule is: 1-year research, 1 year to get to the places, 2-year shooting and 1-year editing. She often shows a beautiful detail, then the camera moves back slowly in order to attract the viewers. The beauty of the pictures instead of preaching. The film is going to have a worldwide release with UN assistance. As for China, the next day her previous film premiered it was pirated so everyone watched it. She was asked about what source of energy she believed in most since renewable ones are insufficient for the current level of consumption. Hydrogen is highly combustible - work has started on using it as a new energy source. And what can we do? A Buddha monk asked how to save the planet, answered: "go to sleep".
Letizia Battaglia's much-younger partner looks her age. She smokes. She'd want marijuana legalised but not hard-drugs because of the mafia. Where there's no money, there's no mafia. Taking photos she was looking for people dying alone, in silence. Her 3 daughters and even her nephews were interviewed for "Shooting the Mafia" but did not appear in the film eventually. The mafia is no longer brutal, girls can come home at night alone. Now the mafiosi deal in drugs, politics, police, business, public corruption. They're simple minds no more.
The judge in Radko Mladic's trial, who featured in "The Trial of Radko Mladic", talked about the war criminal's behaviour in court. Mladic sounds like a psychopath to me: no remorse, outbursts in court.
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