Don't Let the Sun

“While I was shooting in Japan eight or nine years ago, I discovered an agency that allowed you to rent people – for example, someone to wait for you at the station or to behave like your long-lost daughter, or somebody for your birthday party so you can post on Instagram, because it looks better if you have a lot of people sitting at your table. That made me think a lot about how relationships change. In the end, I didn’t have the agency idea in focus anymore; it became more of a background setting because the protagonist is independent in that sense. I wanted to focus more on social relations, and how they change and are influenced by the external situation of the world. But I don’t believe that we will all end up lonely; after all, we are social beings.”