“Conversation with” Tilda Swinton, performer, screenwriter, producer at the Marrakech IFF

December 2, 2023 1 5

Tilda Swinton, at the 20th Marrakech International Film Festival in "Conversation with" section.

"Conversation with" Tilda Swinton, performer, screenwriter, producer at the Marrakech IFF Bénédicte Prot

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“I feel embarrassed to describe myself as an actor, because I’m not really interested in interpreting”

A very rich exchange with the brilliant Scottish performer and icon Tilda Swinton where she tells us more about her relationship with Morocco (as a friend of the Marrakech International Film Festival), but also having shot at night in Tangiers with Jim Jarmush), the collective authorial practice she has grown with as an artist and continues to pursue, her first end-of-the-world musical with the genius helmer of “The Act of Killing”, Joshua Oppenheimer, and an essay-film she is preparing about “our capacity to learn” with the Derek Jarman Lab.

Amongst the birds and fountains of the splendid, sun-bathed Mamounia, Tilda Swinton also talks about Béla Tarr, her collaboration with long-term friend Joanna Hogg, the American studio system feeling more experimental to her than her other, admittedly “more confronting” work, her seeing her work as “staying connected”, and a welcome decline in film snobbery amongst the younger generation.

Written by: Bénédicte Prot

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