Interview with Danish film director Lars von Trier on Antichrist16 September 2009 Anybody who has seen Lars von Trier's latest film Antichrist – or any other film in the director's oeuvre for that matter – will know that Lars von Trier is not a man of readily accessible films. And only very few people, if any, know what is on von Trier's mind when he writes his scripts and directs his movies. But at a conference that was held at the University of Copenhagen this summer about a hundred film buffs came a bit closer to understanding the enigmatic film director. And now everyone else is presented with that same opportunity. Antichrist was shown at a special screening at the Danish Film Institute at the '7th International Conference on the Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image' that was held at the Department of Media, Cognition and Communication at the University of Copenhagen. The screening of von Trier's latest film marked the closure of the two-day conference packed with paper presentations and film discussions, and present at the screening was the director himself. The director participated in a Q&A session with associate professor and von Trier expert Peter Schepelern and the audience, and this conversation is now available as a sound file at the conference webpage. The conversation reveals how Lars von Trier was not completely satisfied with the visual style of Antichrist, and we are told about von Trier's relationship with shamanism, about evil in Antichrist and many other subjects.
The co-organizer of the conference, The Society for Cognitive Studies of Moving Images, is an interdisciplinary organization for scholars with an interest in film analysis and moving pictures. For more information on the organization, please go to http://www.scsmi-online.org/
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