Link of the Day: Interview with Tom Kan for Art of the Title
Love or hate Enter the Void, there is no denying Gaspar Noe’s first person after death rollercoaster ride has some of the best opening sequences of the past ten years (perhaps, all time). Evoking crazed experimental work from the sixties (T.O.U.C.H.I.N.G, anyone?), Godard, advertisement and Noe’s assaultive style sequence designer Tom Kan brings this all together with his own sense of aesthetics. In this interview with Art of the Title, he breaks down his relationship with Noe and how he went about bringing his vision to the screen. Read the whole thing at Art of the Title.
Born in Montreal, Justine Smith is currently enrolled in her second year of study in the Film Studies program at Concordia University. She has worked on a wide-range of amateur film productions, and continues to pursue making short films in her spare time. Justine has written for Twitch, and has her own film blog, Houseofmirthandmovies, which she has been writing for since January 2008. She has contributed to Soundonsight as a writer since early 2010, and has since joined the team as a co-host on their weekly podcast. Her favorite films are 'The Red Shoes', 'Catch-22', 'Jules et Jim', 'The Night of the Hunter', 'McCabe and Mrs. Miller'. Her favorite directors are Ingmar Bergman, Robert Altman, Michael Powell, Alfred Hitchcock &Ernst Lubitsch. 
