mondo cinema and beyond 1960s — 1980s


neither/nor


interview with thierry zéno


NP: Tere are a few good contemporary critical pieces on Des Morts by J. Hoberman in the Village Voice and Amos Vogel, but very little information on the circumstances of the inception of the project and the production. I know you are credited with a film called Death in California: A Gentle Exit, which seems like related material. Was that made before or after Des Morts?


TZ: To me it’s not very important, that film. We’d finished the editing of Des Morts and we tried to sell the film to Belgian TV. Tey said “No, it’s not possible, it’s too harsh to show on TV, but we are very much interested in the subject, and we might buy a different edit which is more palatable for a TV audience.” And that’s why we made this second film, with the same stuff you can see


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