Sophie Mayer hails two richly haunting visions in the London Film Festival’s 2012 Experimenta strand, from Maria Saakyan and Apichatpong Weerasethakul.
Mar Diestro-Dópido cuts her own Spanish pathway across the festival’s Cult, Experimenta and Dare strands to find a trio of films steeped in loneliness, memories and death.
The British short filmmaker tells Carmen Gray how he respun his mother’s pre-marital desert escapades into a compelling – and Cannes-winning – allegory of emancipation.