Inter:view - De Hoe

All interviews are actually about the interviewers, you know that, right? Interviews are about the vanity of interviewers who think: with me, you do talk. I am the one with whom you let go, with whom you can show your true self. I am the one with whom you reach insights you didn't even know you had. A journalist engages in conversation with a celebrated actress. What begins as a friendly Q&A gradually derails into a game of need for validation, shifting power dynamics, and fanatical attempts at unmasking. With feigned openness, Natali Broods and Katelijne Damen venture into the art of the in-depth interview to honor, question, and playfully run away with it. In doing so, they show what it essentially is: not a reciprocal exchange, but a form of self-sculpture and control. A thin layer of varnish over a chaotic life.