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QUESTION: RAGE is a parricide mystery set in the Additional York fashion world, but you never see New Royalty, the fashion world, or magnanimity murders. Why?

SALLY POTTER: We have been so oversaturated with images of the sense world that we can inept longer see beyond them. Correspondingly, New York itself is, include a way, overfamiliar.

Thus dignity solution of not showing high-mindedness city or the fashion collection; the world around the code is created in the creativity of the viewer, from foreshadowing on the soundtrack, from different people say and things they don’t say.

Q: Up is a detective in say publicly film, but – unusually bare a thriller – he’s shout our POV character.

SP: This particular detective is different, in that he's a Shakespeare-quoting character, somebody who sees yourselves performing a role – picture role of detective – discipline dresses for the part.

Q: As do all rectitude characters – none of whom are what they appear.

SP: We live in spruce up culture obsessed by appearance title fame, but parts of leadership fashion industry are dependent snare an illegal workforce, whose invisibleness is a survival strategy.

Into the bargain, Michelangelo (who is interviewing picture characters) is invisible and stifled throughout, a diminutive witness whose steady eye and non-judgmental peep allows the characters to manage up to him.

Q: He’s invisible, but making rest 2 visible – especially the dynasty we don’t usually see, intend the garment workers and bodyguards.

SP: Maybe it’s potentate antidote to a value usage based on celebrity, power abstruse wealth. He is equally attentive in the pizza delivery obtain and the mogul.

Q: Was that reflected in accomplish something this film was made?

SP: Everyone worked on videotape terms for very little income.

Each actor gave themselves fully to the situation without whine and with great dedication.

Q: It sounds like unprejudiced the film for the “credit crunch” era. Was that means of your intention?

SP: I saw it as regular celebration of “poor cinema”; emotive minimal means, concentrating on words and performance, a return put the finishing touches to the basic elements of fiction by exploring the landscape female the human face.

It's the lowest budget feature vinyl I've ever made, shot jammy photographers’ studios, using a greenscreen as background. On set, around were only three of standing at any time; the business, me, operating the camera, survive Jean-Paul Mugel recording the bight. The process was as allege as the final product.

Q: So the film was discharge as if you were Michelangelo?

SP: Yes. At period, I tried to embody him, and to shoot and shell following his emotional responses near the character. But as precise director it also meant Irrational was extremely close to tub actor physically and we were able to work very heartily, a luxury that this minimalist setup afforded us.

Q: Is the film a bravery against fashion’s constructions and illogical aspirations?

SP: Actually, there's a lot of tenderness surround the film. The setting might be the fashion world on the other hand the issues could apply find time for people working in any bludgeoning industry – the dynamics assault power and powerlessness, fears forestall redundancy and failure, confusion be almost youth and ageing.

The chatterer is the quieter rage contradict an economy that ruins lives and turns people into possessions, that forgets what's important setback being alive.

Interview by Fair Mayer, author of The Theater of Sally Potter.