Volume I · MMXXVI · A Curator
A Curator
Mira Halberstam
American independents1970s through the present
"I came to films through John Cassavetes. I was nineteen, and I watched A Woman Under the Influence three nights in a row, alone, on a small television. I have been chasing that feeling ever since — the feeling that a film could be larger than the room it was being watched in."
"My slate tends to be domestic. Two-handers. Films that take place mostly inside houses, or inside cars, or inside conversations. I am told I send a lot of films about people who almost say what they mean and don't. That is correct."
— Mira
From recent slates
I sent you this because of what you said about feeling like films don't show you houses anymore. Here is a house. The film is largely interested in its kitchen.
There is a scene around the forty-minute mark where the wife asks the husband what he was doing last Tuesday. The whole film is in his answer.
An American film, but made the way Americans used to make films when they trusted us. Two people in a room, talking. That is the whole thing. It is enough.
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