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Q&A with BLIND WILLOW, SLEEPING WOMAN Filmmaker Pierre Földes
Friday, April 14
6:50
Moderated by author John Wray
A consummate artist, Pierre Földes is a director, composer and painter. Born in the United States to a Hungarian father and British mother, Pierre Földes is the son of a pioneer of computer animation, Peter Foldes, nominated for an Oscar and a César winner. Pierre grew up in Paris where he studied piano and composition. He began his career in New York composing music for film and advertising before moving to Europe. Fascinated by drawing and animation, he has written and directed several short films by adapting a production pipeline to his idea of film. He has thus developed his own unique and personal style and technique.
John Wray is the author of the forthcoming novel Gone to the Wolves, among many others. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Award, a Cullman Fellowship from the New York Public Library, he was named one of Granta's Best American Novelists in 2007. He has written about Michael Haneke for the New York Times Magazine and the Criterion Collection, and interviewed Haruki Murakami for The Paris Review.
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