Se7en Questions with Filmmaker
Paolo Gaudio
Who are some of the artists or some of the works
that inspired you to get started in your field? Of today’s current aratists, who do you draw inspiration from?
Definitively Terry Gilliam, Tim Burton, Robert Zemeckis and John Carpenter. I grew up watching their movies and even today they are the biggest inspiration for my cinema.
What have thus far been some of the negatives of being an indie artist in your field?
There are not enough resources to make better movies, this is obvious. Anyway, the most frustrating thing for me concerns distribution: it is a very difficult challenge to show your work in front of an audience in a movie theatre. Every kind of movie must be screened on a big screen. That’s my opinion.
What have thus far been the positives of being an indie artist in your field?
We are free to make our choices, to make our mistakes, to build our idea of cinema, without any marketing or commercial issues. Personally, nobody in Italy – maybe in the world – would have let me make a film that is a mix of live action and stop motion. So, I did it by myself.
What have been your favorite completed projects to work on up to this point? Can you tell us a little bit about them?
I’m so proud of my projects because no one believes in them. I made them with so much suffering and pain, but I got there. They are bizarre, unique and personal movies. Films like Reveries of a Solitary Walker or The Black Cat, I invite everyone to discover them and watch them.
What projects are you currently working on or have planned for the near future?
Actually, I’m working on several new projects, but my favorite is Dagon: Aclaymation. An animated film that blends together the atmosphere of Lovecraft and 80’s action movies. As if Cthulhu meets Schwarzy;
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Where do you see yourself in a few years and what would it take for you to consider your career a success?
I see me exactly like I am now: happy to try to turn my dreams into reality.
If you couldn’t do this anymore, what career path do you think you would have followed and why?
It’s not easy to say: making films represents so much of my life. I have degree in Philosophy, so I guess I would try teaching.
