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Interview
Filipa Ruiz
through pain tings, photographs, sculptures,
writings even music and architecture that we
are able to know and study the human being
from pre-historical times till modern times.
Art is a cultural record, and people have
always fascinated me. absolutely. And my will is to instill hope.
My trajectory into filmmaking happened in
such a natural way I always loved painting,
writing, and photography has always been
with me as well. I attended the Fine Arts
University for my Bachelor degree in Lisbon,
and soon I flew to Finland where I wanted to
continue my studies. Cinema is known as
the Seventh Art as it synthetizes all the
traditional arts together (the spatial arts and
the temporal arts). When one thinks that to
make a film one has to go from a written
script into drawing shots, building sets,
developing characters, music composi
tions... being an Art lover, I easily found this
being the medium I would like to express
myself in. My inspiration is People, At the time I was making some studies on
the essence of where the artists get their
inspiration from. I went to visit a friend of
mine in Barcelona. He collects everything he
might find interesting from the street or
objects that people give him and he builds
his own pieces out of it. Every item in his
house is unique, and has his handprint on it.
The lights built with nets shading the rooms
in different textures, his bed built over long
wooden structures which allows you to walk
under it, he places canvas over walls that he
covered with pages from his favorite musical
orchestrations and projects images over
it and so on. It became this one whole
installation, which I believe that reflects both
As The Days Went By is a poetic and
immersive film. What attracted you to
this project?