New Year's Resolutions never last and are utterly pointless, but what the hell, we talk to four directors about their take on 2008 anyway.

So as the industry collectively struggles with its Hogmanay hangover, gazing forlornly at pitches scribbled on napkins at the Christmas parties and trying to remember which end of the camera to look into, here's the editorial equivalent of a bacon sarnie and Alka-Seltzer.

Kinga Burza, Partizan
To be sincere, I'm not really into New Year's Resolutions. Restrictions and rules are too time consuming to keep and I'm a believer of balance and all things being good for you in moderation. Though, the New Year is a good time to embrace exciting interests and new hobbies and embrace an excited, positive outlook on the upcoming future.

I'm really excited about this year. Last year I lost my cynicism around April, starting thinking positively and things really starting brightening up for me. I attracted loads of great work, collaborated with some great artists and crew and got to travel and shoot abroad for work. It was also amazing to experience the transformation of my favourite hobby into my sole occupation and not have to rely on alternative means to pay my rent. It was the first time I felt comfortable with my job title.

For 2008 at every given opportunity, I'd like to travel and experience new, exciting things in the flesh. Another hobby that I want to take on a bit more seriously is stills photography. I bought a vintage Contax in New York in September last year and since having it, I've barely put it down.


Arno Salters, Stink; Première Heure
I was working on New Year's eve, and I didn't take the time to file a resolution. I'm not too familiar with official regulations, but I'm pretty sure it's too late for me to come up with something now. Not sure what I would have picked anyway. I don't smoke, I'm not a junkie, and I'm not overweight, so the usual top three is no help... If it weren't too late, I would resolve to come up at some point during the year with a good resolution for 2009. Then again, I'm not sure they take early claims.

Luciano Podcaminsky, Rebolucion
On New Year's Day I woke up and walked a bit. I was in Amsterdam so I went to have some breakfast in the hotel and then I went to a museum called foam, a photography museum, very good.

Last year I wish I had won the PlayStation football championship we've done at Rebolucion. For this year I will be much more prepared and sure I will win.

This year I will start working in the preproduction of my second feature film called My Dear Teddy. I think we will shoot maybe in 2009.


Zeitguised, Rokkit
The Zeitguised went to bed last year at half past 10 and woke up this year at seven in the morning. We had breakfast and a walk in the park, noticing the missing, usually abundant joggers.

"Sleeping through the night, every night from now on!" is a great new year's resolution; it took us all morning to invent. You see, once you have such a bombshell of a New Year's resolution, the mere notion of it takes you to vertiginous heights of excitement. We could go anywhere from here. Why stop at one resolution? Thus, a second one: "Let's never ever eat German Christmas sweets ever again, no, make that any sweets at all". Whooooaah. Obvious to the vigilant observer, we lost focus on feasibility well before this point. Yet, if one's reputation is ruined, life turns out to be relentlessly blithe after all. There goes an even bolder resolution: "Let's print lots of virtual money and declare war on countries which names we can't pronounce!" Oh boy, are we in trouble - I think we just stole someone else's new year's resolution. We sense a monster lawsuit of copyright infringement looming over us. Oh no, here we go again. "Let's put a copyright on every whim that farts through our minds!" Happy New Year 2008.