Interview with Filmmaker Stuart Birchall (TRISKELION)

TRISKELION was the winner of BEST SOUND & MUSIC at the May 2020 Experimental, Dance, Music Festival.

Matthew Toffolo: What motivated you to make this film?

Stuart Birchall: I was initially planning to make a shorter more conceptual piece, a music based film that was more about themes rather than a more structured narrative. As I began developing the project I saw that I had an opportunity to explore the structuring of the three elements into a more confident idea with what I hope is a more interesting structure, maintaining the experimental spirit but sprinkling enough tropes and references in the design to keep an audience interested and on semi-familiar ground.

2. From the idea to the finished product, how long did it take for you to make this short?

We shot the first sequences in 2016! But due to some delays and overlapping projects It wasn’t until 2019 that…