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I dont come from there.
Images in religion, in Muslim religion, were sacred.
We went from that, to too many images.
Leos CaraxJohn Phillips/Getty Images for Doha Film Institute
Later in the conversation, Carax commented on the challenge of renewing the moving image to engage new audiences.
You have to reinvent it every generation…
If you showed this film to a three-year-old today, he would be bored.
You have to reinvent this power, this amazement, thats the ambition and the hardship of making films.
The 2008 portmanteau movieTokyo!
When I met him, I was 20 and he was 30, Carax said of Escoffier.
He had made documentaries before and was starting out as a cinematographer.
We became like brothers and for 10 years, we saw each other every day.
I had the girl, but I didnt have the boy.
I had to delay shooting.
I couldnt find this boy.
Carax said the new film had been sparked by a request by a Paris museum to make a self-portrait.
It was supposed to be a 10 to 15-minute film.
It was the first time that I edited anything myself without Nellie [his long-time editor Nelly Quettier].
Although I didnt do the exhibit, I ended up making this film… its about 40-minutes.
Its so interesting to work alone he said.
