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Leos Carax Bemoans Digital-Era Image Overload: “If I Were A Dictator, I Would Limit People To Sharing 24 Images A Year” – Qumra
Leos Carax Bemoans Digital Era & Image Overload: “If I Were A Dictator, I Would Limit People To Sharing 24 Images A Year” - Qumra
French filmmaker Leos Carax discussed the sacred nature of the image and the challenge of retaining its power on the big screen in the digital age in an on-stage conversation at the Doha Film Institute ’s Qumra event on Monday. – which also featured segments by Michel Gondry and Bong Joon Ho – was Carax’s first major big screen work after 1999 box office flop Pola X, which in turn followed the difficult, over-budget, three-year shoot of his cult 1991 film Les Amants du Pont-Neuf. Carax described Lavant and Escoffier, who both worked on his first three features – Boy Meets Girl, The Night Is Young( Mauvais Sang) and Les Amants du Pont-Neuf – as key figures in his early filmmaking life, saying that without them he probably would not have become a full-blown film director.
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