Skip to content.  Interview: Jake Yuzna On “Open”  Jake Yuzna,
the nephew of horror film director and producer Brian Yuzna, was
born 1982 in Minneapolis and today works and lives in New York.
I already mentioned his debut movie “Open” in my little tribute
to Genesis and Lady Jaye Bryer P Orridge – the film premiered at
this year’s Berlinale and won the special award of the “Teddy”
section. “Open” could be called an “inner-city road movie”, it
portrays two emerging love affairs of people that all don’t
really fall into the frame of traditional categories of sex and
gender (click here for the Berlinale info sheet). The great
thing about the movie (and at the same time the reason why I
asked Yuzna right after seing the film if he would give me an
interview) is that it is not a “problem film”, but rather the
opposite. The athmosphere reminded me a bit of the more abstract
movies of Gus van Sant. Here’s the interview with Jake, I had to
shorten it up a bit. I interviewed him in the lobby of a library
next to Berli