Interview with Lana Wachowski

In this original, in-person interview with Cáel M. Keegan, Lana Wachowski discusses her filmmaking career as a transgender and queer writer and director. Topics covered include Sense8’s cancellation by Netflix, Bound’s twentieth anniversary and the legacy of New Queer Cinema, Wachowski’s interest in creating mainstream queer work, the relationship between gender and genre in her cinema, the challenges and joys of making both The Matrix and Cloud Atlas, and the links between transgender imagination, utopianism, and science fiction. Wachowski also discusses the limitations of cinema as a product, identity versus the perception of identity, her aesthetics of assault, the experience of directing sexuality in cinema, and the importance of empathy in creating both art and art criticism.