The sixth of seven (6-7!!!) director interviews Wilson conducted at this year’s Hong Kong International Film Festival is with the British, experimental director Ben Rivers, creator of the child-focused, post-apocalyptic exploration Mare’s Nest. Rivers speaks about giving child actors the freedom to be themselves onscreen, receiving Don Delillo’s blessing to stage his play The Word for Snow in the film, and the intention behind his depiction of an adultless world.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
02:03 Interview begins
03:32 Origins of Mare's Nest
06:07 Don Delillo
09:52 Children performing adult routines
13:14 Documentary versus fiction
19:09 Film-within-film
22:06 Moon walks into the past
25:02 Location filming
28:48 SEA filmmakers
31:25 Outro