A Stripped-Down Approach To Filmmaking

Documentarians can be scrappy and persistent, but Canadian filmmaker Eva Ziemsen might take the prize for most innovative baiting of her subject. Desperate to conduct a face-to-face interview with iconoclastic filmmaker Lars von Trier, Ziemsen, traveled across Europe with nothing more than the vaguest hope of success, barged into von Trier’s studio with the camera rolling, and then, with the ultimate rejection at hand, offered to conduct the interview naked. Two hours later, von Trier was sitting across from her (and no, she didn’t have to remove any clothing).