Mona Fastvold
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“Passion Projects That Are Suffering”: Director Mona Fastvold | The World to Come
How did events of 2020—any of them—change your film, either in the way you approached it, produced it, post-produced it, or are now thinking about it? The film’s post-production was affected by the pandemic, and the film was generally difficult to bring to life but considering the human toll this virus has taken on everyone around the world, it’s hard to drum up much of an anecdote… Movies, like small restaurants or shops, around the globe are passion projects that are suffering right now. (Check back daily during the festival — new answers are uploaded on the day of each […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Feb 2, 2021 -
Fabled: The Childhood of a Leader
Youthful innocents relish playing the part of amateur cartographer for school assignments, drawing prats, or, even more fun, molding contours from papier-mache. Seven-year-old Prescott (Tom Sweet), the subject of Brady Corbet’s astonishing debut feature, The Childhood of a Leader, is no innocent. The film, adapted from Jean-Paul Sartre’s short story of the same title and co-scripted by Norwegian Mona Fastvold, charts his rocky path from angel in his church’s Nativity play to one of the signature faces of the diabolical: totalitarianism. The scene in which the boy slides his fingers across a wall map of Europe just as it was […]
by Howard Feinstein on Jul 21, 2016 -
Interview with The Sleepwalker Director/writer Mona Fastvold
Filmmaker: Why this movie? Why did you decide to do it? Fastvold: I’ve always been compelled tell a story about the complex relationship between sisters (I’m one of five). It’s a unique and naturally beautiful bond; the strange way siblings so easily regress into childhood patterns and the intense love and jealousy between them… All that instinctual competitiveness and care. Filmmaker: How much of your crew was female? Was hiring women a consideration for you? Fastvold: In fact, the crew was female by majority but that was just by chance! Filmmaker: How did you go about raising funding for it? Fastvold: I had made a […]
by Danielle Lurie on Jan 21, 2014 -
The Sleepwalker | Director Mona Fastvold
Attention, our audience’s and our own — it’s a valued commodity these days. We struggle to command our audience’s attention, for them to discover our work and then, once they’ve discovered it, to actually focus on it. Meanwhile, we struggle to focus our own attention, to fight our society’s weapons of mass distraction so we can not just see our work to completion but fully discover the meanings within it. What role does attention play in your work? Can you discuss an instance where you thought about some aspect of attention when it came to your film? My film is […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Jan 19, 2014
