DE HOE - Inter:view

Two women stand on stage. One is a celebrated actress who is about to make her first own film. The other a lauded journalist who confronts her with questions, suspicions, and rumors. What starts as a friendly Q&A derails gradually into a game of desire for proof, shifting power dynamics, and fanatical unmasking attempts. Despite all the revelations, it remains the question of how well we really get to know them. Does it stay with that endless attempt to say something that wants to be true, honest, or complete, but never is? How do you elicit what you are after? What do you say to answer what is asked of you? And who are you when the other determines your words? In the heyday of clickbait, Natali Broods and Katelijne Damen venture with feigned openness into the art of the in-depth interview to honor, question, and parody it. Thus they show what it is in essence: not a reciprocal exchange, but a form of self-sculpture and control, a thin layer of varnish over a chaotic life.