London Film Festival Head Kristy Matheson On Landing ‘Blitz’ & The Online Criticism Of The Festival’s Ticketing System: “Apologies For The Long Delays”
deadline.comWith titles like Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich’s The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire and Mati Diop’s Dahomey, London Film Festival head Kristy Matheson, in her second year at the helm, inches further toward what appears to be an interesting strategic shift at the LFF: a full-scale embrace of the avant-garde.
Alongside Hunt-Ehrlich and Diop, experimental and deeply contemporary filmmakers such as Wang Bing, Payal Kapadia and Tsai Ming-liang feature throughout this year’s LFF lineup.
The experimental mix-up, Matheson told us ahead of Wednesday night’s opening, is the enthusiasm of London’s “very cinema-literate audience.” “There are so many amazing cinemas all across the city screening great work all year round.
And that’s our core audience,” she said. Opening the festival on Wednesday is Blitz, the latest feature-length project from Turner Prize- and Oscar-winning filmmaker Steve McQueen.
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