02/09/2002 - Producer Nicholas McClintock talks about the Ten Minutes Older project, based on Calvino’s “Six Memos for the Next Millennium”

8 directors were each given 10 minutes of screen time to portray 1 subject: Time. The result is an ensemble film called Ten minutes older – The cello and it is the second instalment of a project that first saw the light of day seven years ago under producer, Nicholas McClintock.

We asked McClintock how this film came to be made:
I was reading Italo Calvino's collection of lectures, “Six memos for the Next Millennium”, that quoted one old Sicilian story-teller saying something that jumped out at me: 'Time takes no time in a story'.
In other words, within a story you bend time, it becomes malleable. Film is all about time (sculpting time, as Tarkovsky said) and being a documentary filmmaker, I wondered how different directors might view the subject - and how they may approach working in a short amount of time. That was six years ago. The title came from two Latvian documentary filmmakers, Juris Podnieks and Hertz Frank.

(Translated from Italian)