Evald Schorm

"Documentary film forces a direct experience. In fiction film, reflections are induced vicariously. The filmed material begins to live again by connecting and the individual shots take on a different meaning in terms of the whole. This is the starting point for sorting the material. In a documentary, you touch things directly. In fiction, it's indirect, it's reflections of the artificial world.

My key issues are personal freedom and human happiness. I go back to them and I get to know them again. The process of discovery is what interests me most of all. The result, the finished film, is usually not what I wanted. But still, I would never want to remake a film, or fix it, or make any additional improvements to it. Not because I'm happy with my films and don't find fault with them, but because I'm done.

I do have one concern, and that is that I don't get scared by professionalism and that my method falls into convention. I'm afraid of going deaf and of losing my sense of the world. Without realizing it, reason becomes ossified and one begins to base oneself on one's own experiences, which in the end turn against one. That's what I fear most."

Evald Schorm