I sat down to interview Charlie Kaufman, who’s written:
Being John Malkovich (1999)
Adaptation (2002)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
He then moved into writing and directing:
Synecdoche, New York (2008)
Anomalisa (2015)
I’m Thinking of Ending Things (2020)
Recently, he’s been collaborating with other artists, including EPing Duke Johnson’s The Actor, and solo-directed two short films, both written by Eva H.D. (an accomplished poet we also interviewed).
Their first short film collaboration was Jackals and Fireflies (2023), and the second, which we’re talking about today, is How to Shoot a Ghost (2025), which premiered at Venice and stars Jessie Buckley.
Synopsis:
Two newly dead young people meet in the streets of Athens, amid the pulsing cityscape and the ghosts of history. One a translator, the other a photographer, they were outsiders in life; in death they struggle with the residue of their longings and mistakes. They wander the city together, finding consolation in the difficult beauty of existence and its aftermath.
Trailer:
