Show and Tell 2018: Narda Azaria Dalgleish
Narda Azaria Dalgleish
Filmmaker
https://www.nardadalgleish.com/innerscape/
1. What’s your idea of perfect happiness?:
When an idea appears as a new realisation that can be articulated clearly and accurately..
2. What drives you to make films?:
Hmmmm… ideas, visualisations, restlessness, invitations, but above all the feeling that I have not found my complete creative vision in any films yet – either mine or others.
3. Where in the world would you most like to be right now?:
Here, where i am, but also visualising some places i hope to film later this year in Israel.
4. When inspiration is waning, and you feel creatively sapped, what do you do to stay motivated?:
When I’m ‘stopped’ creatively I negotiate with myself to accept it willingly. So I may do something else, while waiting for a cue.
5. What films are the most inspiring or influential to you at the moment, and why?:
At the moment it has to be Chantal Akerman (6 June 1950 – 5 October 2015). I’ve watched so far about 8 of her films. Love what she says about her filmmaking in her interviews, especially in her (last?) documentary: ‘I Don’t Belong Anywhere’. I’m sure the quality of her abiding in so many scenes throughout her films, is not done arbitrarily as a mere duration for the sake of duration, rather it may be informed by her intrinsic connection with their ‘charged presence’, so to speak. As one example, this abiding quality is evident to me in her 1977 astonishingly beautiful film, ‘News from Home’, that has long takes of locations in New York City, set to Akerman’s voice-over as she reads letters her mother sent her between 1971 and 1973.
Your top 3 favourite music tracks?:
1. Bernstein’s violin concerto – ‘Serenade after Plato’s Symposium’ with Gidon Kremer (1954).
2. Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem with Galina Vishnevskaya, Peter Pears and Dietrich Fisher-Dieskau.
3. All kinds of (female ethnic) mountain throat singing, such as the Amazigh of the Atlas mountains, Persian, Russian, Mongolian, east Turkey, Bulgarian and more.
7. What’s the scariest thing you’ve ever done?:
I ran away from home in Jerusalem at the age of 12 and accidentally crossed the borders to Jordan.
8. What’s your greatest extravagance?:
I don’t know.
9. What turns you on – creatively, spiritually or emotionally?:
Words that ring true, selfless kindness, good company, solitary retreats
A final word?
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?
Not yet 🙂
