11 Artists Interview_ Working with Moving Images

“For years I didn’t know how to say ‘cut’, because I felt it was not allowed to cut the flow of time.” Hop on board as 11 amazing artists – including Wim Wenders, Pipilotti Rist, Laurie Anderson, Bill Viola, and Jonas Mekas – share their thoughts on working with different forms of moving images. “The films come out of a need to make an image, an impulse to make a film, and the meaning emerges of the months of the making of the film,” says South African artist William Kentridge (b. 1955). American director Joshua Oppenheimer () considers filmmaking a way of exploring how we perceive the world as well as ourselves, and American video- and performance artist Joan Jonas () has always “performed in relation to the frame of the camera – what the camera saw.” American-Lithuanian filmmaker Jonas Mekas ( - ) is attracted to images that catch the very moment that makes a situation unique, just as German filmmaker Wim Wenders () likes the documentary approach to filmmaking, where things