On Saturday evening, the veteran American filmmaker Charlie Kaufman appeared at the Sands Film Festival in St Andrews, Scotland, for an onstage Q&A, originally billed as an exploration of the relationship between poetry and cinema.
Poetry was read on the night, but the session, chaired by Kaufman’s longtime collaborator, Eva H. D., also served as one of the filmmaker’s most unguarded and illuminating public interviews.
The night began with a screening of Kaufman and Eva’s 2025 short film How To Shoot A Ghost, which was shot in Athens, Greece, and debuted at last year’s Venice Film Festival. The pair then proceeded to interrogate Kaufman’s unique creative practice through poems that have inspired him.
“I’m not interested in the conventional notion of entertainment,” Kaufman told the crowd in St Andrews. “I’m not interested in a carnival. I’m interested in something that has an emotional life and movement. And
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