watch this movie: wasps
GC: The characters seem exceptionally well-developed. They appear to have a fully formed life before the film begins and they’ll seemingly continue to exist after the film ends. This tends to be unusual for a short film.
AA: A few people have said that they want to know what happens next and they want to know what happened before. Although I’ve been asked about making it into a feature, I personally thought that once you’ve done something, that’s it. You move on to the next thing. But somebody asked me about making another short that’s another day in her life — on the train to Margate or something like that. I quite liked that idea of picking another whole day out of their lives somewhere down the line. Then I had fantasies about doing two more and it could be…
Click here to read GreenCine’s interview with the Oscar-winning director of Wasps, Andrea Arnold.
