“Conversation with” Tilda Swinton, performer, screenwriter, producer at the Marrakech IFF

“I feel embarrassed to describe myself as an actor, because I’m not really interested in interpreting”

A very rich exchange with the brilliant Scottish performer and icon Tilda Swinton where she tells us more about her relationship with Morocco (as a friend of the

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but also having shot at night in Tangiers with Jim Jarmush), the collective authorial practice she has grown with as an artist and continues to pursue, her first end-of-the-world musical with the genius helmer of “The Act of Killing”, Joshua Oppenheimer, and an essay-film she is preparing about “our capacity to learn” with the Derek Jarman Lab.

Amongst the birds and fountains of the splendid, sun-bathed Mamounia, Tilda Swinton also talks about Béla Tarr, her collaboration with long-term friend Joanna Hogg, the American studio system feeling more experimental to her than her other, admittedly “more confronting” work, her seeing her work as “staying connected”, and a welcome decline in film snobbery amongst the younger generation.

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