Name: Creating Your Characters' World from Scratch
Start: 2025-02-17 17:00:00
Location: HAU2

Few crew members are as vital in bringing a director’s vision to life as production and costume designers. And yet, to many, the two professions remain largely mysterious. In this illuminating talk, production designer Inbal Weinberg and costume designer Bina Daigeler discuss their distinct crafts, and how each helps crafting characters and worlds from scratch. Drawing from films they worked on together (Pedro Almodóvar’s "The Room Next Door") and others separately (like "Tár", whose costumes were designed by Bina, or "The Lost Daughter", whose production design was overseen by Inbal), the two reflect on the cinematic worlds they've conjured through the years, their visual storytelling and the importance of collaboration in their creative teams.

Inbal Weinberg

Born in Israel and based in New York, Inbal studied film at NYU with a focus on production design. Her credits include award-winning films like "Frozen River", "The Perks of Being a Wallflower", "Pariah", and "Beasts of No Nation". She collaborated with Derek Cianfrance on "Blue Valentine", "The Place Beyond the Pines", and the Emmy-winning "I Know This Much Is True". She recently wrapped production on his next feature, "Roofman". Inbal was nominated for a Spanish Goya for "The Room Next Door" and an Italian "David di Donatello" for "Suspiria". In the U.S., she received Art Directors Guild nominations for "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" and "The Lost Daughter". She co-founded the Production Designers Collective and leads the Production Designers Gathering and International Production Design Week.

Bina Daigeler

Since moving to Spain in the 1990s, the costume designer has become one of the international film industry’s most celebrated artists. She received her first Oscar nomination for "Mulan" (Niki Caro, 2020) and the German Film Award for "Manifesto" (Julian Rosefeldt, 2015). She has been nominated five times for the Spanish Goya, including three times for collaborations with Pedro Almodóvar: "All About My Mother" (1999), "Volver" (2006) and currently "The Room Next Door" (2024). Daigeler's other films include Todd Field's "Tár" (2022), "7 Days in Entebbe" (José Padilha, 2018), Wim Wenders' "Submergence" (2017), "Snowden" (Oliver Stone, 2016), Only Lovers Left Alive (2013) and The Limits of Control (2009) by Jim Jarmusch as well as the two-part film biography "Che" (2008) by Steven Soderbergh. Her latest work includes Karim Aïnouz's "Rosebush Pruning" and "Mother Mary" by David Lowery.