interesting things he articulated like no other, about the unexplored comics medium, social issues, his growing interest in magic, yet most of the questions he was asked were about specific comic related issues. In 1999 we had to do a 15 minute 16mm film in film school and I approached him with the premise of "The Artist as Contemporary Shaman." He liked the idea and we audio interviewed him for one day and shot him on another. The themes I focussed on were largely issues that interested me and could be expressed by him or by sections from his work. The film was a nice little experimental piece, yet there were so many areas Alan could take you to. But we didn't have the resources, time and money to do that. So I decided to develop this feature in 2000, and after a series of other film jobs finally started in the summer of 2001. It took around 2 years to finish and I had to immerse myself into all of Alan's material I hadn't read before. And a lot of strange connections and coincidences emerged while writing and researching, but then again that only seems to confirm the theory that our minds can send and receive energy and information if the will is there. sm: I have seen just a couple of still pictures and read a short presentation of the movie. At the moment I think there is no trailer available yet. So from the information I put together, my impression is that it's a sort of documentary of the whole of Moore's career. Is it right? Can you tell us more about the movie? DZ: It's not a talking heads docu and definitely not a conventional biography. It's in essence a shamanic journey, with different things going on in parallels. Alan's evolution in terms of career, personally, but also magically, scientifically. Then there are other themes and protagonists in the film, the divorce of science and magic, energy at it's purest form. A bit like David Attenborough narrating the Life of Mammals for example, this could be seen as Alan Moore narrating the Life of [continues]