Filmmakers ahoy! On Movies, Movies, Movies Jen catches up with the legendary Clara Law who's showing deux films at Sydney Film Festival. An Australian/Hong Kong Second Wave director (Floating Life, Drifting Petals) Law bares her soul in one of our most honest chats. Over zoom, Jen and her discuss DIYing it, resourcefulness, Andrei Tarkovsky, playing the long game, filmmaking partners, Dostoevsky, commitments to art, Hong Kong, and the allure of images. This is an interview for the filmmakers out there.
Her films Floating Life (1996) and Drifting Petals (2021) are on sale now; go to www.sff.org.au to buy tickets.