Vertical Cinema – An Interview with Artist/Filmmaker Joost Rekveld

The Melbourne International Film Festival are screening a series of experimental films this year in a program called Vertical Cinema, commissioned by theSonic Acts festival. Ten shorts will be screened, on a format akin to flipping 35mm film on its side, in Federation Square’s Deakin Edge. We spoke to one of the filmmakers involved in the project, Joost Rekveld, ahead of the screenings on Friday the 14th of August.

First I want to ask about form, because you started out shooting on film in 1...