Vampyr (1932) by Carl Th. Dreyer.

“It’s one of the films that moved me the most, it also makes me laugh a lot. If I wasn’t so lazy I would write my big paper about the comic in Dreyer and Bresson’s work! Plastically, the film is marvellous, there is something special in the transparency of the images, in the greys, the transparent greys. Each shot is an invention in that film. And it’s never affected, it’s always necessary. He dissociates the camera from what he is shooting, it’s something I really like about his work, something that makes my heart beat. He follows somebody walking and suddenly the camera does something else, it moves for itself. It marked me deeply.”

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Anne Benhaïem studied cinema at French cinema school Fémis, in the directors section. She wrote, directed and edited a dozen of short films (Solo tù, co-directed with Arnaud Dommerc, Families Theater starring Helene Lapiower, Humphrey Bogart and the Invisible Woman) and co-wrote with Sophie Fillières (Ouch, Pardon My French) or Marc Cholodenko (writer for Philippe Garrel). We invite you to visit the Facebook page (in French) where she launches a subscription to finance her Film to Come…