Creating Your Characters’ World from Scratch

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 have conjured through the years, their visual storytelling and the importance of collaboration in their creative teams.