Interviews

Interview: Ognjen Glavonic – The Load

Published on August 25, 2019

World preeming at the Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes, Ognjen Glavonic certainly had the odds stacked against him to create his fiction debut and a lot of it had to do with history not wanting to be revisited. Naturally, it is not what is presumed to being carried that makes for the solid discourse, but what is not being said. The Load, would win the filmmaker the Best Director award at Marrakech, and I caught up with him a couple of days prior to the festival coming to and end with one of my more memorable screenings. We discussed his moving camera aesthetic, splintered portrait of youth and what the protagonist finds when he ends up at his final destination.

Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).