Interview with Filmmaker Anouk Brouwer (BODY LANGUAGE)

BODY LANGUAGE was the winner of BEST FILM at the January 2020 Experimental, Dance, Music Film Festival in Toronto.

Matthew Toffolo: What motivated you to make this film?

Anouk Brouwer: We live in a world that seems to overly focus upon stereotypes like gender, class, sexual identity, ethnicity and skin color. I believe that human creatures possess one homogenous vocabulary. A language without words that we know how to operate before we even speak. In this system of communication, the body serves as the human instrument.

With this film I wanted to express my love for body motion and the different messages our instrument can send across. I wanted to visualise the power of the way we move our body in this complicated world. The moving body offers an unrelenting dialogue.

Overall, I wanted to express that without words, we can communicate everything. I am always focused on discovering innovative…