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A perverted portrait of an artist

Aleksander Huser / December 17, 2018

The Artist & The Pervert is a somewhat atypical portrait of an artist that tells less about composer Georg Friedrich Haas’ microtonal music then it does about his BDSM-based relationship with his wife.

African, alcoholic, artist, Austria, BDSM, Beatrice Behn, composer, dominant, feminist, Georg Friedrich Haas, HOTDOCS, In Vain, love, mental disorders, Mollena Williams, music, Nazis, New York, OK Cupid, perverted, prejudice, punishment, René Gebhardt, sadomasochistic, sexual, sexuality, slave, slaves, subordinate, The Artist & The Pervert, The New York Times, Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, vanilla sex, ZagrebDox

The pioneer of long-term filmmaking

Melita Zajc / November 7, 2018

IDFA: Helena Trestikova’s work epitomises the innovative role of long-term filmmaking, and the inextricable link between big and little histories.

bars, Blue Valentine, Boyhood, communism, crime, Czech, Czech Republic, Derek Cianfrance, director, Eastern Europe, Europe ‘51, FAMU, filmmaking, Helena Trestikova, heroes, History, IDFA, jail, Manzelske etudy, Marriage Stories, metonymy, Pamela Cohn, Pickpocket, Plasil, Prague, president, prostitution, punishment, René, René Plasil, responsibility, Richard Linklater, Slovak, Story, Strnadovi, The Miracle, Vaclav Havel, values, World Trade Centre, Zazrak

Is it a crime to save lives?

Dieter Wieczorek / June 3, 2018

Acting in the name of human rights has become a criminal act in France.

activists, Adam Nossiter, Administrative, border, Cannes, Cannes Film Festival, Cédric Herrou, celebrities, choice, citoyen, Citoyennité, control, Court, courts, criminal, criminalized, cynical, dictatorial, Equality, equipment, ethics, food, foreigners, France, Fraternity, French, IDFA, imprisonment, injustice, Italy, judicial, lawyers, Liberty, Lifeline, Manuel Valls, marchers, Médecins du Monde, Michel Toesca, migrants, military, military camps, Minors, modus vivendi, moral authority, New York Times, Nice, paradox, police, politicians, prefect, protection, Pulitzer, Pulitzer Prize, punishment, Renaissance, Republic, Roya, Roya valley, SaNoSi Productions, ships, shipwreck, sovereignty, specialists, surveillance, territories, terrorism, To the Four Winds, tyrannies, victims, Vintimille, virtue, weapons

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