Bruno Miguel Resende: What is art for you?

Steven Sherrill: Art is that which navigates and translates the complexities of individual human experience, rendering that solo experience into something sharable.

 

Bruno Miguel Resende: What is cinema for you?

Steven Sherrill: An audio/visual vehicle for STORY in all of its levels of real/true/fantastical. The best is when the 2 dimensional idea (digital or other) becomes the whole world for me the viewer. Immersion.

 

Bruno Miguel Resende: What is utopia for you?

Steven Sherrill: The present moment, when I can be in it.

 

Bruno Miguel Resende: Who is your favorite filmaker?  

Steven Sherrill: Too many. Roy Anderssen. Nicolas Winding Refn. Bergman. Jodorowsky. Bela Tarr. Almodovar. Gaspar Noe. Yorgos Lanthimos. (Some) Von Trier. All of the B Filmmakers. Etc etc etc.

 

Bruno Miguel Resende: Who is your favorite writer?

Steven Sherrill:  My real success has been as a novelist. I can’t even begin to answer this question.

 

Bruno Miguel Resende: Who is your favorite artist?

Steven Sherrill: Too many. Kiki Smith. Ed Keinholz. Bill Viola. Pippilot Rist. Cindy Sherman. Hopper. Bruce Nauman. Paul McCarthy. Etc etc etc.

 

Bruno Miguel Resende: What are your main influences?

Steven Sherrill: See above and toss in a bunch of weird music.

 

Bruno Miguel Resende: What is more important for you the argument or the image of the film?

Steven Sherrill: They’re inseparable for me. But if I feel like I am being preached at, or too forcefully steered, I get bored. Uninterested. This could be through either argument, image, music, etc, and the same standard holds true in writing and words.

 

Bruno Miguel Resende: What is for you an experimental film?

Steven Sherrill: A project that purposefully, necessarily, doesn’t color within the lines.

 

Bruno Miguel Resende: What is love for you?

Steven Sherrill: Giving giving giving giving giving.

 

Bruno Miguel Resende: What is the future of art?

Steven Sherrill:  Who the hell knows. If we knew, it probably wouldn’t be art. But I think that art is so necessary, so elemental, that it will exist and exist and redefine its existence in perpetuity.