Adrian găteşte (La cină cu Adrian Schiop) – Un film documentar fără scenariu de Adrian N Păun
Lună noiembrie 2017
The Child Sex Trade – (UK, 2003)
Liviu Tipurita returns to his homeland of Romania to investigate stories he has heard that there has been a sudden rise in the trafficking of children into the sex trade. He meets an old friend, fifteen-year-old street kid Laurentiu, who tells him he’s been selling sex to foreign pedophiles since he was twelve, and that a wealthy German has bought him a passport so that he can be trafficked to the West. Laurentiu introduces Liviu to his gang of street kids, some as young as eleven, being preyed on by the pedophiles.
Liviu follows up stories of kids trafficked to Italy, and on the streets of Milan films a fourteen year old boy being pimped by his own father. Over weeks of investigation, several more cases of families selling their own children for sex are documented.
Back in Romania, he hears about an English pedophile/trafficker called Tom. Co-producer/director Andrew Smith infiltrates Tom’s pimping network, and films damning evidence of how underage boys are preyed upon and trafficked to wealthy pedophile clients in the West.
I Heard It Through the Grapevine – (USA, 1982)
James Baldwin retraces his time in the South during the Civil Rights Movement, reflecting with his trademark brilliance and insight on the passage of more than two decades. From Selma and Birmingham, and Atlanta, to the battleground beaches of St. Augustine, Florida, with Chinua Achebe, and back north for a visit to Newark with Amiri Baraka, Baldwin lays bare the fiction of progress in post-Civil Rights America-wondering „what happened to the children” and those „who did not die, but whose lives were smashed on Freedom Road.”
Brother Outsider The Life of Bayard Rustin – (USA, 2003)
During his 60-year career as an activist, organizer and „troublemaker,” Bayard Rustin formulated many of the strategies that propelled the American civil rights movement. His passionate belief in Gandhi’s philosophy of nonviolence drew Martin Luther King Jr. and other leaders to him in the 1940’s and 50’s; his practice of those beliefs drew the attention of the FBI and police. In 1963, Rustin brought his unique skills to the crowning glory of his civil rights career: his work organizing the March on Washington, the biggest protest America had ever seen. But his open homosexuality forced him to remain in the background, marking him again and again as a „brother outsider.” Brother Outsider: the Life of Bayard Rustin combines rare archival footage — some of it never before broadcast in the U.S. — with provocative interviews to illuminate the life and work of a forgotten prophet of social change. Update: On August 8, 2013, President Barack Obama named Bayard Rustin a posthumous recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. **(text: POV PBS)
(TELL ME WHY) THE EPISTEMOLOGY OF DISCO – (USA, 1991)
(Tell Me Why) THE EPISTEMOLOGY OF DISCO is an often humorous, at times poignant look at the role that disco music has played in the formation of contemporary gay male identity. The piece challenges the notion of disco as merely a ‘leisure activity’ by positing disco as an historically significant cultural space created as an expression of gay sexuality.
AWARDS
New Vision Award – Video, San Francisco International Film Festival (1991)
Audience Choice Award, Los Angeles International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival (1991)
Best Social Critique, Atlanta International Film Festival (1993)BROADCAST
Living Room Festival (broadcast), KQED (PBS affiliate – San Francisco)
Click here to go to the video https://vimeo.com/80169654
No Place for Fools – (Russia, Bulgaria, 2015)
Durakam zdes ne mesto
Sergey Astahov is a gay man converted by Church and state propaganda into an orthodox pro-Putin activist. Composed of terrifying images from Astahov’s blog, this documentary by contemporary artist Oleg Mavromatti is the most radical insight into today’s Russia and its ideological clashes.
Sergei Astahov is a mentally disabled man who spends most of his time closed up in his Moscow flat, sending his messages out into the world in the form of videoblogs. For a single man, the camera becomes his sole partner and repetitive speaking a demonstration of life. In his missives, he confesses his homosexuality, his admiration for President Putin, and his belief in the Orthodox faith. Paradoxically, his mind is the meeting point for all the extremes of the Russian world, which has no place for the mentally ill.
This film is about a lonely Russian homosexual, a
real person, who is also an anti-gay Orthodox
Christian pro-Putin activist. These two identities
that thoroughly contradict each other, unfold in
his video blog in a chaotic schizophrenic mixture
of images and sounds. A closer look reveals that
his monologues about food, love and patriotism
are framed by current socio-political environment
of capitalist Russia. The chaos of these countless
video-confessions—in reality often too long and
inarticulate–has been directed and cut together in
a clear structure by the author Oleg Mavromatti.
Mavromatti also had researched and collected
enormous amount of Youtube videos—from
which the film is entirely made of–to set the
context, in which his character can blossom and
decay. Mavromatti’s intellectual montage of this
footage shows how the life of the individual is
directly affected by the smallest changes in
Russia’s political climate and by the victoriously
manifesting consumerist values. In a word – the
controversial character of this film acts as a litmus
paper of contemporaneity, to express author’s
commentary on the darkest sides of life in Russia
today. Because of this director’s cut, this real
youtube persona, largely ridiculed by society
(including the virtual one) obtains a voice, denied
to him by everyone else. That way Mavromatti
makes a personal, but political statement.
Director: Oleg Mavromatti
Producers: Boryana Rossa (SUPERNOVA) and
Andrey Silvestrov (Cine Fantom)
Script: Oleg Mavromatti
Editing: Oleg Mavromatti and Boryana Rossa
Sound: Tihon Pendyrin
Idea by: Oleg Mavromatti and PO98
English translation: Boryana Rossa, Misha
Rabinovic
Hunted: Gay and Afraind – (UK, 2015)
Hunted: Gay and Afraid
Two years after her shocking documentary about anti-gay attacks and thuggery in Russia following the introduction of its anti-gay propaganda laws, Liz MacKean turns her attention to huge American Christian Right groups who fund and advise the drawing up of pro “traditional relationship” laws around the world, including Slovakia and Uganda. In the latter country gay oppression can be brutally violent, and she talks to a young man who’s lost everything after his arrest for being a homosexual. It’s a depressing picture of wretched intolerance. Dispatches looks into claims that US-based group the World Congress of Families has used its pro-family message to support anti-gay legislation in Russia – and even lobby the Slovakian government to pass new laws curtailing the rights of the gay community. Reporter Liz MacKean talks to victims of gay hate crime, and to the leader of the WCF, Larry Jacobs.
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