I couldn’t believe somebody would call those figures deformed. So to watch this familiar terrain turn into this horror around the mother and the children, where everything goes through a metamorphosis and people are deformed, was really powerful.ĭBIt’s interesting that you use that word “deformed.” When I was reviewing various press coverage of your work, people kept using that word, which I found kind of offensive. All the adults there looked like those people in that movie, I had exactly the snowsuit that the kids wear in it. When I was a kid in Switzerland, we used to go to a town in the mountains that looked a lot like the world in that film-the snow, the buildings, the 1970s fashion. In part because of his engagement with “body horrors,” if we can call it that? You’ve brought up David Cronenberg’s The Brood, and Cronenberg was an incredible influence on me when I was young.
Dodie BellamyReading through some of your earlier interviews, I was surprised at the resonance between my experience and your experience.
