Bigelow wants "experiential" 'Frontier'

Kathryn Bigelow has admitted that she wants to give her next project Triple Frontier the same visceral visual style as her latest movie.

The filmmaker told DS that she has become a fan of the hard-hitting, documentary aesthetic she utilised on this week's war film The Hurt Locker.

She said: "I quite like that style, I have to say, it allows for a kind of experiential filmmaking - it puts you there. I think that's what film can do that no other medium can.

"Somebody was writing about Hurt Locker and saying that during the scene where blood is being cleaned off bullets, [the writer] was creating saliva in his mouth so that he could help, then he realised how ridiculous that was! There's something intriguing, if the story provides the opportunity, about parachuting the audience into a moment that he or she may not want to experience first-hand."

Thriller Triple Frontier, which will see director Bigelow reteam with Hurt Locker scribe Mark Boal, is set between the borders of Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil.

"It's a fairly lawless area of America," Bigelow added. "Potentially a very rich environment for much drama."

> Click here to read our interview with Kathryn Bigelow