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Espoo Cin\u00e9 sat down with director Mia Engberg for a brief moment during the festival hassle, to discuss about the director\u2019s films Belleville<\/em>Baby<\/em>, Lucky<\/em>One<\/em>, and Hypermoon<\/em>, known together as the Belleville<\/em> trilogy. The films, combined of materials filmed throughout several decades, stand out with their distinguish and beautiful aesthetics and essayistic style. They are personal films with very few persons on screen, intimate stories that open to be universal through their specificity.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Could you introduce yourself?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

My name is Mia Engberg, I\u2019m a filmmaker, and I have three films here this year, my entire trilogy: Belleville Baby<\/em>, Lucky One<\/em>, and Hypermoon<\/em>. I\u2019m from Sweden, Stockholm.<\/p>\n

Can you tell a bit more about the Belleville trilogy?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

I started working on it almost fifteen years ago, so it\u2019s a really big project coming to an end now this year with Hypermoon<\/em>, the third part. It has cinema premiere in Sweden in September. And it\u2019s a personal story, about me and my ex-lover Vincent who\u2019s a criminal and lives in Paris. But it\u2019s also a film about being a human being. It\u2019s about me but it\u2019s also about everyone.<\/p>\n

Both Belleville Baby and Hypermoon use your personal archive as material. How is it to work with personal archive and real memories?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Since I\u2019ve been a documentary filmmaker for so many years, I have a huge archive, and it\u2019s actually a great pleasure to just dig into the archives and use old material. I think it\u2019s also good for the planet to recycle what you already have instead of going out to produce more. But it\u2019s also a mix, I mean, the films are very written, some people call them documentaries, but I don\u2019t really do that. It\u2019s more like autofiction. It\u2019s a mixture between imagination and real memories. So, they are partly archive films, but I also made a lot of new images with very old cameras. I work a lot on 16mm and Super 8.<\/p>\n

The second part, Lucky One, is more of a fiction compared to these others. How did this happen?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Lucky One<\/em> is actually a little bit different than the one and the third. It\u2019s darker and it\u2019s more challenging. I wanted to experiment with the idea of having a documentary character, like Vincent, and turn him into a pure fictional character. And also, to have a dialogue with him, because it\u2019s a fictional story about him and his daughter. And at the same time, it\u2019s a dialogue between me, the director, and the main character in the film. Like, with this work, is this credible, is this possible. So, we are also having a dialogue in the film about that. I wanted to experiment with this different kind of storytelling.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s coming next?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

For me, it always takes a little while after a film is done to recharge and get new ideas. Right now, I\u2019m writing a book about filmmaking that will be released in the springtime. For the moment it\u2019s called \u201cDarkness as Material.\u201d And after that I truly don\u2019t know. My life is completely open! I will not do a film like this again. I did this trilogy, now I will do something completely different. But we will see!<\/p>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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