Embedded in this interview is a required watchlist: Motion pictures that catalyze the arresting paintings of Hannah Wilson (who was recently on our Radio Juxtapoz podcast). While film stills launch initial ideas, Wilson’s research reaches through fiction and grapples with the reality of emotion portrayed cinematically. By questioning reactions and freezing feelings, character studies are distilled in a way that stuns. Texture, posture, and intrigue intertwine, and a new approach to portraiture is born and thrives in its own narrative. Glasgow-based Wilson was mid-residency at Moosey Art in Norwich, UK, for this heady conversation about films and failure.