The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

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Movie
German title The Pervert's Guide to Cinema
Original title The Pervert's Guide to Cinema
Country of production United Kingdom , Netherlands , Austria
original language English
Publishing year 2006
length 153 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Sophie Fiennes
script Slavoj Žižek
production Martin Rosenbaum
Sophie Fiennes
Ralph Wieser
music Brian Eno
camera Remko Schnorr (Studio)
Sophie Fiennes (Set)
cut Ethel Shepherd
Marek Kralovsky
occupation

Slavoj Žižek - himself

The Pervert's Guide to Cinema is a documentary by Sophie Fiennes about the Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalyst Slavoj Žižek . In the film, Žižek analyzes a number of film classics from a psychoanalytical point of view.

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production

Slavoj Zizek, 2008

There was no perfectly elaborated script for the film, just a kind of handout about which topics should be addressed during the filming. Žižek himself was given a lot of space for improvisations that arose on the set and in presenting his theses. Some takes lasted 12 to 15 minutes. Individual scenes of the film are shot at original locations or in re-enacted sets, creating the illusion that Žižek himself is integrated into the film. Filming locations of individual Hitchcock sequences e.g. B. were Bodega Bay ( The Birds ) in California and San Francisco ( Vertigo , Psycho ). There were three phases of shooting: the first in April 2004 in Champaign , Illinois, the second in April 2005 in San Francisco and the third in a studio in the Netherlands.

The result was 20 hours of footage. The film was edited in April 2006 in London. Sophie Fiennes was instrumental in the editing.

Performances

The film premiered on June 17, 2006 at the Sydney Film Festival and the US premiere in October 2012 at DOC NYC, the largest documentary film festival in the United States. The film was then u. a. shown at the following festivals: Toronto Film Festival (2006), Belgrade Film Festival (Serbia 2007), Mar del Plata Film Festival (Argentina 2007), Skopje Film Festival (2007), Hong Kong International Film Festival (2007), Film and Art Festival Two Riversides (Poland 2007), Festivaletteratura Mantova (Mantua, Italy 2007).

In Germany, the film was broadcast in a heavily shortened version in June 2008 on 3sat .

Editions

In 2006 the Frankfurter Verlag Zweiausendeins released a DVD in an uncut, unsynchronized version with English, German, French and Japanese subtitles. In 2016, Suhrkamp Verlag published the DVD The Pervert's Guide to Cinema as part of its filmeditions suhrkamp series , presented by Slavoj Žižek , also in English and with German subtitles. The DVD booklet contains an interview by Marty Fairbairn with Sophie Fiennes as well as two essays by Žižek: “Why do the birds attack?” And “The collapse of intersubjectivity”.

criticism

The film scored 88% of the critics on Rotten Tomatoes .

Joachim Kurz writes in kinozeit.de: “Žižek and Fiennes are not only satisfied with the distanced approach, with the interpretation of the films presented, they are also cinematic seducers who repeatedly draw the viewer into the situation. Often shot in the studio set-ups of the films or at the original locations, the philosopher appears more than once as part of the film, as an accomplice, as a voyeur, who represents the passions and desires of the audience. [...] The Pervert's Guide to Cinema definitely encourages us to grapple with the riddles of the big films outside the cinema and to think about what they trigger in us, what desires and phantasms they tell ”.

Quotes

“My transcendent approach is to show that in cinema we're not primarily fascinated by the plot, but that it's about something more subtle. That there are moments in certain films that really move, disturb or excite you - almost in a perverse sense. That was my approach. Sophie Fiennes . "

“If you are looking for what is more real in reality than reality itself, then you are dealing with cinematic fiction! Slavoj Žižek . "

“Cinema is the ultimate perverted art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire. Slavoj Žižek . ”

List of analyzed films

With seven films and a trailer with the sound of Psycho , Alfred Hitchcock is at the top of Žižek's favorites, followed by David Lynch with five films and Chaplin, Kubrick and Tarkowskij with two examples each. The clear focus is on American cinema, Asians and Europeans are only represented in individual cases, such as B. Germany with Fritz Lang, Austria with Michael Haneke or Sweden with Ingmar Bergman.

literature

  • Marty Fairbairn: Intrusion of the Real. An Interview with Sophie Fiennes, Director, 'The Pervert's Guide to Cinema', in: Film-Philosophy. Vol. 10. No. 3. 2006. pp. 38-49.
Abridged version of the interview in the DVD booklet.
  • Sophie Fiennes. The Pervert's Guide to Cinema. Presented by Slavoj Žižek. DVD booklet. 2nd edition Berlin: Suhrkamp 2016. ISBN 978-3-518-13537-2

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sophie Fiennes as Ethel Shepherd, IMDb
  2. ^ The Pervert's Guide to Cinema. Parts 1, 2, 3. Production info [1] , accessed on August 22, 2018
  3. ↑ Press kit for the film
  4. ↑ IMDb, cast
  5. ^ Films for Lovers of Film , accessed August 9, 2018.
  6. ↑ The Pervert's Guide to Cinema at Rotten Tomatoes (English)Template: Rotten Tomatoes / Maintenance / Various connoisseurs in Wikipedia and WikidataTemplate: Rotten Tomatoes / Maintenance / Wikidata name different from the page name
  7. ↑ Joachim Kurz: The Pervert's Guide to Cinema kinozeit.de, accessed on August 18, 2018
  8. ↑ Quoted from: Bernd Sobolla: Fascinating analysis of suppressed longings, Deutschlandfunk Kultur. March 5, 2016,
  9. ↑ Quoted from Roman Schreiber. The third pill. Film review in: [2]
  10. ↑ "Cinema is the ultimate perverted (twisted) art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire. ”Quoted from goodreads, quotes
  11. ↑ Trailer , accessed August 24, 2018.