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“Film medium is an art because it is your own expression
and vision without incorporating music, and a whole lot
of glamour.”
As he links this to his objective to mentor young artists;
he thinks that a lot of glamour that is added to this
medium is a means of complexity for these newer kids.
“We are supposed to teach the kids that film medium is
an art, it teaches people the way of acting.”
“I am also working on projects like fashion photography
and music videos that are going on simultaneously.”
Looking at the bigger picture Hamza wants to work in
the European Cinema.
“European Cinema is where experimental cinema starts
from and I am a huge fan of that.”
“The places where directors like Xavier Dolan, Alfred
Hitchcock come from.”
“Xavier Dolan and Wes Anderson are my biggest
inspirations because they work on dysfunctional
relationships.”
He tells us about his thesis, which is inspired by these
directors and is about a dysfunctional relationship
between a father and a daughter lost in a jungle. After
being robbed of everything, they now have to survive and
this eventually brings them together.
”Dysfunctional relationships and drama are my favourite
genres to work on.”
Thus, bringing us to the topic of working in Hollywood
or Bollywood. We sit at the café conversing why Pakistani
cinema isn’t progressing as much despite films being
made every year.
“Pakistani cinema blindly follows Hollywood and
Bollywood, but fail to promote our culture, which in fact
is very rich.”
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