Show and Tell 2018: Bea Haut
Bea Haut
Filmmaker
1. What’s your idea of perfect happiness?:
Digging about in the woods
2. What drives you to make films?:
I write so I can see what I think
3. Where in the world would you most like to be right now?:
Right here, where I am
4. When inspiration is waning, and you feel creatively sapped, what do you do to stay motivated?:
Read philosophy books and old notebooks
5. What films are the most inspiring or influential to you at the moment, and why?:
Inspiring Books at the moment:
Meeting the Universe halfway. Quantum Physics and the entanglement of Matter and Meaning. Karen Barad.
Utopias, Dolphins and Computers. Problems of philosopical plumbing. Mary Midgley
Living a feminist Life. Sara Ahmed
Your top 3 favourite music tracks?:
currently
Boys Latin – Panda Bear
Smile around the face- Four Tet
Ping pong affair- the Slits
7. What’s the scariest thing you’ve ever done?:
give birth
8. What’s your greatest extravagance?:
camera neg – kodak 7222
9. What turns you on – creatively, spiritually or emotionally?:
Making sense out of confusion
A final word?
worse things happen at sea
P.S. Do you have any favourites or highlights from this year’s Alchemy programme that you’d love to give a shoutout to here?
