[on characters vanishing in his films] The vanishing allows me to talk about a void that many people suffer from, a void of meaning, of sense, of perspective in life. I feel there is something generally applicable there, that can tell something about life in the Western society. It gives me as well the possibility to examine individual identity. Where does it start, where does it end? Vanishing, though, is something very active, scarily active. In
Die Vermissten (2012), I was interested in the generation gap. In
Freedom (2017), apart from gender questions, it's more about the quest of freedom at large. Do we have it? Do we need it? Do we want it? The family serves as a micro-society here. [Aug.2017]
