Fausto’s Andrea Bussmann, and the new rules of experimental Canadian cinema GlobeArts
Bussmann’s debut solo feature, the Goethe-riffing experimental film Fausto, will play the TIFF Lightbox in Toronto this week.It is easy to say that Canadian filmmakers don’t play by the rules. A relative lack of resources and our distinct cultural sensibilities ensure such unorthodoxy. But director Andrea Bussmann has never even glanced at the rule book.
It’s wonderful and also very unexpected. I think that when you make small – and I wouldn’t even say “independent” because this is quite small and experimental – you just do not think about a theatrical release. But it’s important because once you screen, you get access to more grants, in order to make more work. This film was made with with very little, and my own money – about $6,500 – and it’s hard to apply for grants. This is a way to get some funding, to make more films.
I’m not even sure. A part of me identifies very much as a Canadian, and the next films I want to make, they can only be made in Canada and Mexico. At the same time, I haven’t lived in Canada for a number of years, and there’s always a distance when you leave a place. There’s a lot of hybridity, too. There are so many wonderful things about Canada, and so many things I’m critical about that maybe I wouldn’t be if I didn’t leave.It’s only natural when you spend a long time living somewhere else.
Canada is so funny because it’s such a big country, and we filmmakers are so few. It’s radically different across the board. I’ll be honest in that I’m very narrow-minded in the kinds of cinema I like. I don’t have an idea of what is going on in commercial Canadian cinema because it doesn’t interest me. I do know a lot of Toronto-based filmmakers, though, and they themselves are all over the place in what interests them.
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