“After I completed APRIL, which was then banned, I was told that I knew nothing about life. That made me angry. I left the city and took a job, incognito, in a steelworks, where I stoked the furnaces for almost two years. It was physically punishing work: smoky, hot and dusty. We became good friends in our four-man brigade. Then I decided to shoot a film about the whole thing. Of course, it never made it onto the screen.”
“After I completed APRIL, which was then banned, I was told that I knew nothing about life. That made me angry. I left the city and took a job, incognito, in a steelworks, where I stoked the furnaces for almost two years. It was physically punishing work: smoky, hot and dusty. We became good friends in our four-man brigade. Then I decided to shoot a film about the whole thing. Of course, it never made it onto the screen.”
