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DON'T KILL THE ARTIST: THE FILMS OF ANDREAS TROEGER
LIFEPAK
A night with an ambulance crew. A race between life and death.
"Lifepak" was chosen as one of ten works for the German Short Film Award.
Documentary: 12 Min. / B&W / 1990
PATH
A fixed brain is cut into slices like a ripe pineapple. Heads are
opened and guts are prepared for the post-mortem
examination. The preparator opens a body and a young female
doctor dissects a fetus. The comments in the film are like
guards, which lead you through the images. Early in their
careers, the pathology workers reported having extreme
fascination and at the same time emotional difficulty with
their vocation. In many cases they lost their friend and were
labeled "butchers" as a result of their chosen profession. The film
gives a precise and clinical look behind the iron doors of
a pathology lab. The pictures are shocking. They touch deep-set
fears.
Documentary: 13 Min. / B&W / 1991
Kill The Artist
is a documentary about artists who got into trouble with the law because of their art-works.
Mike Diana was indicted in his home state of Florida for indecency. He was charged with three counts of obscenity in 1994, spent time in prison and was not allowed to draw for three years. In 2003, after fleeing to New York, Mike showed his artwork in a secret exhibition in Brooklyn.
Diana says of the experience: In a way it was almost flattering that they would feel so strongly. I felt that my artwork must have been effective.
Using never before seen footage along with rare films from Richard Kern, Nick Zedd and German filmmakers Jörg Buttgereit and Olaf Ittenbach, Kill The Artist takes a look at the ultimate power play Sex and Death.
In the film Richard Kern says, We wanted it to be as hard as possible. The only restriction we had was, who would do what we wanted to be done.
While in the western world violent life like re-enactments of rape and death on film thrive, investigative Journalist and author Yaron Svoray, explains in the film that the reality of sex crimes show how cheap life really can be. His investigation of snuff-movies leads him into the war in Bosnia. As Svoray explains: Eventually two or three girls are pulled into a classroom and there is a communal rape. When its finished, one of the guys just says, kill the bitches.
Kill The Artist reveals the extreme measures lawmakers and critics go through to censure avant-garde artists who walk the fine line between art, perversion, religion and devious sexual behavior.
Documentary: 40 Min. / Color / 2007
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124 South 3rd Street
Brooklyn, NY 11249
United States
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