Cyrus Frisch
Cyrus Frisch ( born 1969 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch avant-garde filmmaker, playwright and dramatist.
Life
His debut film Forgive me, a critique of today's " reality TV culture ," had its premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (2001) and made him known as a controversial filmmaker. Fresh himself played the lead role in this film. He was a diabolical film director without ethical boundaries in search of the ultimate, exciting the (fictional ) film. He sat as an actor, a group of (real ) social outsiders and people with intellectual disabilities a.
Frisch has turned the first fictional feature film with a cell phone camera: Why Did not Anybody Tell Me It Would Become This Bad in Afghanistan was shown at various film festivals at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2007, the Tribeca Film Festival 2007, the San Francisco International Film Festival 2007 and Pesaro in 2007. Having attended the Dutch Film Academy in 1992, Frisch was nominated for the Grolsch Price, one of the most prestigious film awards in the Netherlands.
2009 ended Fresh Dazzle (also known as " Oogverblindend " ), a film that he had begun 15 years previously, with the Dutch movie stars Georgina Verbaan and Rutger Hauer in the lead roles. Dazzle is Hauer's first film in his native country in 29 years.
Press Coverage
The Filmmaker Magazine described him as the "wild man " of the Dutch film. According to Holland Film Fresh is currently one of the most daring filmmaker who works in the Netherlands. IndieWire 's Eric Kohn describes Dazzle as a super cool cinematic challenge. A thriller like Polanski's Repulsion filled with the aesthetics of a Chris Marker film diary. According to the Tribeca Film Festival catalog Fresh Dazzle created in his own unique vision of a socially committed cinema. According to the Dutch newspaper Trouw Frisch [ the movie Why Did not Anybody Tell Me It Would Become This Bad in Afghanistan ] revealed today as precisely the madness of Western society as Polanski in the 1960s with his film Repulsion ( May 31, 2007 ). In the film, Comment Magazine (March / April 2010) Olaf Muller writes that Frisch's films " expose the stupidity of the Company and to disclose ".
Filmography
- Dazzle (aka Oogverblindend ) ( feature film) (2009)
- Blackwater Fever ( movie ) (2008 )
- Ellen ten Damme Stay ( Music Video)
- Why Did not Anybody Tell Me It Would Become This Bad in Afghanistan / Waarom nobody heeft mij verteld dat het zou zo erg been in Afghanistan ( feature film) (2007)
- Forgive Me ( feature film) (2001)
- Geen titel (medium -length documentary film) (1996 )
- I shall honor your life (short documentary film) (1996 )
- Live Experimenteren (medium length documentary ) ( 1995)
- Selfpity / Zelfbeklag ( experimental film ) ( 1993)
- Welcome 2 (Short Film ) ( 1992)
- Screen Test (Short Film ) ( 1992)
- Welcome 1 (Short Film ) ( 1991)
- De Maria van Kut (Short Film ) ( 1990)