Cold Open · Essay · aug 31, 2023

Future Frames: A Conversation With Kim Kokosky Deforchaux

It started with Jurassic Park and a childhood obsession with Steven Spielberg that never quite left. Kim Kokosky Deforchaux — writer/director, Dutch Film Academy graduate, and Tom Ooms's good friend — has been building toward genre filmmaking with the conviction of someone who decided early what cinema was for. In this Future Frames conversation with Tom, Kim reflects on how an obsessive viewing life becomes a directorial sensibility, and what the gap is between studying screenwriting and actually making the film you want to make.

By Elliot Bloom

Film Journalist · Celebrating Cinema

For the second interview in our Future Frames series, Head Of Program Tom Ooms and his good friend, Amsterdam-based writer/director Kim Kokosky Deforchaux explore how Kim’s childhood obsession with Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park propelled him to pursue a career in genre-filmmaking.

In this hour-long, frank conversation, we get a glimpse of this future framemaker’s trajectory toward becoming a director, after having studied screenwriting at the Dutch Film Academy, how his obsessive movie-watching influenced his own projects, and how his award-winning shorts Ik, Moordenaar and Hantu have made it possible for him to now work towards his first feature film debut.

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