Cyrus Fresh

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Cyrus Frisch (* 1969 in Amsterdam ) is a Dutch avant-garde filmmaker, playwright and playwright.

Life

His debut film Forgive me , a critique of today's “reality TV culture”, premiered at the Rotterdam International Film Festival (2001) and made him known as a controversial filmmaker. Frisch himself played the main role in this film. In doing so, he gave a diabolical film director without ethical boundaries in search of the ultimate, exciting (fictional) film. As an actor he used a group of (real) social outsiders and people with intellectual disabilities.

Frisch shot the first fictional feature film with a cell phone camera : Why Didn't Anybody Tell Me It Would Become This Bad in Afghanistan has been shown at various film festivals: the Rotterdam International Film Festival 2007, the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival, and San Francisco International Film Festival 2007 and Pesaro 2007. After graduating from the Dutch Film Academy in 1992, Frisch was nominated for the Grolsch Prize, one of the most prestigious film prizes in the Netherlands.

In 2009, Frisch finished Dazzle (also known as "Oogverblindend"), a film he had started 15 years earlier, starring Dutch film stars Georgina Verbaan and Rutger Hauer . Dazzle is Hauer's first film in his home country in 29 years.

Press coverage

The Filmmaker Magazine called him the "wild man" of Dutch film. According to Holland Film , Frisch is currently one of the most daring filmmakers working in the Netherlands . Indiewire's Eric Kohn describes Dazzle as a super cool cinematic challenge. A thriller like Polanski's Repulsion is filled with the aesthetics of a Chris Marker diary film. According to the Tribeca Film Festival catalog, Frisch created his own unique vision of socially engaged cinema in Dazzle. According to the Dutch newspaper Trouw , in [the film Why Didn't Anybody Tell Me It Would Become This Bad in Afghanistan ] , Frisch showed the madness of Western society today as precisely as Polanski did 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 and expose the dullness of society”.

Filmography

  • 2007: Why Didn't Anybody Tell Me It Would Become This Bad in Afghanistan / Waarom heeft nobody mij verteld dat het zo erg zou been in Afghanistan
  • 2008: Blackwater Fever
  • 2009: Dazzle (aka Oogverblindend)
  • Ellen ten Damme Stay (Music Video)
  • 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 Kut van Maria (short film) (1990)

Plays

  • Gharb, A short, sharp, blast of a play . 2004.

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Fresh, Cyrus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch avant-garde filmmaker, playwright and playwright
DATE OF BIRTH 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam