Clara Riedenstein

“ I try to do my best to help the actors, and sometimes it’s not very comfortable. It sounds fake if I’m talking to you, and you need to look in the other direction at the balcony, and it’s not very natural. But sometimes things work as a composition. It’s like music. You have to compose, you have to find something like the truth – whatever that is. And so in this case, I didn’t need to move. When you feel like moving, of course you can move the camera. But normally when I’m filming I ask myself why am I doing this? Why is the camera moving? Why is it travelling? Why is it going from here to the end of the room? What’s the need?”