Interview with director Mathilde Neau (UNBIND)

Mathilde Neau’s short dance film played to rave reviews at the April 2017 FEMALE FEEDBACK Film Festival.

Matthew Toffolo: What motivated you to make this film?

Mathilde Neau: My first motivation in films is to express feelings, thoughts, to answer questions with body expression. Talking with dance. This was the leading of my project, exploring sensations and trying to catch them in film. My curiosity to approach a world with subtlety and without words, my want to transmit an organic message was the center of the project.

From the idea to the finished product, how long did it take for you to make this short?

The idea emerged from questions I had inside of me from a long time, and it took me around five months from the first draft of the script to the final edit to finalize Unbind. But I can say the creation process just started. This…