Bruno Miguel Resende: What is cinema for you?

Susana Darwin: Cinema is a public dream, a recorded hallucination we can share equally and misinterpret equally.

 

Bruno Miguel Resende: What is utopia for you?

Susana Darwin: A place of peace and play. The closest I have experienced is the currently inactive Michigan Womyn's Music Festival and the Burning Man Festival, but Chicago's annual Pitchfork Music Festival comes fairly close.

 

Bruno Miguel Resende: Who is your favorite filmmaker?

Susana Darwin: These days, Greta Gerwig and the Daniels, but also Lisa Cholodenko, Agnieszka Holland, Peter Weir, and Pedro Almodovar.

 

Bruno Miguel Resende: Who is your favorite artist?

Susana Darwin: Mark Rothko

 

Bruno Miguel Resende: What are your main influences?

Susana Darwin:  Writers James Baldwin and Susan Sontag; historians Timothy Snyder and Heather Cox Richardson; politics

 

Bruno Miguel Resende: Who is your favorite writer?

Susana Darwin:  Toni Morrison

 

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

Susana Darwin:  the subject and the image don't inform each other, the film may have a hard time succeeding.

 

Bruno Miguel Resende: What is love for you?

Susana Darwin:  freedom, play, attentiveness, presence, generosity, saying "yes"

 

Bruno Miguel Resende: What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?

Susana Darwin:   not having time or resources to create

 

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

Susana Darwin:  A film that steps outside of conventions of storytelling, that adheres to rhythms beyond the beat set by Hollywood, that is brave enough to articulate its own aesthetic.

 

Bruno Miguel Resende: What is art for you?

Susana Darwin:   an inspiration, a disturbance, a balm

 

Bruno Miguel Resende: What is the future of art?

Susana Darwin:  endless rebellions against rebellions, whether or not the oligarchs enslave us all