Five Questions from Quarantine: Hugo Diaz
The Henry EP tells us why MacGyver needs to join him in isolation, why it's fun to throw a Yam and how restrictions following this period might impact creativity.
What's your self-isolation set-up at the moment?
1h30mn drive south of Paris, with my partner.
In an old country house that needs a bit of love and requires fast improvements of my home repairing skills.
As a true urban animal, this might be the big challenge of this lockdown.
It's lockdown; aside from your family, which four people, past or present, would you most like to be quarantined with?
- MacGyver - he was my hero when I was a kid and probably has good practical knowledge to share. And don’t say he’s fictional - you’ll break a dream.
- John Denver - to enchant the quiet nights by the fireplace.
- Jim Carrey - is there a better guy to be depressed with ? I also feel he would get along great with MacGyver.
- Ricky Gervais - because we need good jokes right now.
We need entertainment, what's your favourite short film?
A one I like a lot from recent years is Thunder Road by Jim Cummings.
Powerful and simple - it was adapted into a feature afterwards.
Cummings did it on his own and it’s a great A to Z guide for Indie cinema.
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You've completed Netflix. And Amazon Prime. And Disney+. It's on the hard stuff; board games. What do you pick and why?
Yam’s dice game (I think it goes by Yahtzee in english) - I can’t get enough of it.
It is the perfect combination of strategy and chance. A bit like production ?
On a serious note, how do you think this situation will impact you individually, and the industry as a whole?
Maybe it will re-highlight the fact that filmmaking is deeply practical.
We go to places, meet people, form teams, build stuff, use equipment. This is very far from an office job and this is why all the market is on stand-by mode right now.
We are makers, not theorist, what we do is grounded into reality. Even though it is a very tough time for production companies, it can benefit on the long run in valuing our expertise.
The current crisis is also going to shake travel restrictions and the way we approach locations. Are we going to travel the world as easily in the next months/years as before?
Maybe one trend will be to relocate shootings in home countries or at least closer countries.
I have mixed feeling about this. While it’s a good thing for our local industries to get back in shape, it’s also a risk of domestic fold-back, with less exchange of talents and directors between countries.
Our industry flourishes with diversity and staying within our borders might not be such good news for creativity.
