PERFECT DAYS writer/director/producer Wim Wenders in conversation during a master seminar at the AFI Conservatory.
It’s been four years since the world came to a halt and life, defined by quarantines and the fear of interaction, took a turn to isolation. It’s been about the same number of years that Wim Wenders has been on hiatus, returning with Academy Award nominated Perfect Days (2023), an ode to solitude. ‘I dreamt that societies would become better after the pandemic, and that we would take better care of each other’, Wenders told me ahead of the film’s UK release, ‘but then the opposite was the case.’ To the director, people seem to live more recklessly than before. EXCERPT FROM FRIEZE ARTICLE
ON SOURCE: AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE