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Throughout his career, and particularly with "Calendar," Egoyan's use of video in his films has provided a way of exploring absence. The director says that "with video, you are very aware that it's an image, calling attention to itself as an image, and allowing a certain degree of self consciousness which I find really, really exciting." Egoyan, however, is interested in moving away from video, as revealed by his reaction when questioned about his recurrent use of the medium. "I thought I'd never be asked that question again," he says, "but I'll answer it one last...
Video has been one of the instruments used by Egoyan to explore the ways in which people interact. "I think," he says, "that human relationships are a lot more frail and much more tentative than films make them out to be. In most films, people just get together and make connections, things happen. I've never been comfortable with that. I think it's much more realistic to show how precarious and rare the meeting of two people...
...course, a way of ending uncomfortable silences is by filling them up with babbling, something that Egoyan is familiar with. "When I went to a table dancing club in San Francisco, I really identified with Thomas [in "Exotica"]. I started talking, and all this nonsense was pouring out of me. I was going on and on because I was so nervous...
Referring to that character, who goes to the ballet with extra tickets to pick up potential dates who want to see the performance, Egoyan jokes, "If my movie starts a trend, I'll be very pleased...
directed by Atom Egoyan...