| Director: | Sophie Fiennes |
|---|---|
| Production: | Keeper Pictures (Katie Holly, Evan Horan), P Guide (Sophie Fiennes, Shani Hinton, Martin Rosenbaum), SPOK Films (Jožko Rutar, Miha Černec), The Film Kitchen (Ineke Kanters, Lisette Kelder), Mattima Films (Andrew Grant) |
| Running Time: | 133’ |
| Language: | English |
| Country: | Ireland, United Kingdom, Slovenia, Netherlands, Norway |
| Main Cast: | Slavoj Žižek |
| Cinematographer: | Remko Schnorr |
| Editor: | Sophie Fiennes |
| Production Designer: | Miha Knific |
| Costume Designer: | Barbara Drmota |
| Music: | Magnus Fiennes, Horace Fiennes Tummings |
| Sound: | Igor Iskra, Martin Clarke, James Latimer |
Cinema
The Pervert’s Guide to Utopias
Venice Open – Out of Competition
Synopsis
Philosopher Slavoj Žižek is our guide through landscapes of classic film, music, social media, archive and webcasts. Making unexpected twists and turns, he maps the utopian illusions of our times. Through absurd juxtapositions and startling insights, we are seduced into recognising our fate, in order to change it. “If aliens were to visit our earth and by chance ask me, ‘Could you explain to us what humanity is about?’” says Žižek, “I would not tell them, ‘go around and look,’ I would tell them, ‘look at these and these and these movies, and you will understand us.’”
The Pervert’s Guide to Utopias concludes a two-decade collaboration between Sophie Fiennes and Slavoj Žižek, and completes a trilogy that began with The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema (2006) and The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology (2012).
Director's statement
I believe all cinema – fiction or nonfiction – is at its core anthropological; remainders of human culture and civilisation. This film has been made from a point of desperation. What seemed abstract has become more and more concrete… my own mortality, madness, the sense of closure, but also the ever present time of cinema and the moving image. Slavoj chastens us to think. As he says in the film, “Our duty is to see things the way they are, and to do this, we need cinema.” Eight years in the making, my challenge was to create a through-line, working with an extraordinary combustion of material, and to approach this as evidence, which is the documentarian’s craft.
PRODUCTION/DISTRIBUTION
PRODUCTION 1:
Keeper Pictures - Katie Holly, Evan Horan
15 Whitefriars, Peters Row
Dublin, D02 DK46, Ireland
Tel: +353 1 478 9404
E-mail: info@keeperpictures.ie
Web: http://keeperpictures.ie
Social Media: @keeper_pictures - Instagram
PRODUCTION 2:
P Guide - Martin Rosenbaum, Shani Hinton, Sophie Fiennes
Bintry Mill, Mill Road
Bintree, Norfolk
NR20 5NY, United Kingdom
Tel: +44 7769 351 078
E-mail: shanihinton@me.com
PRODUCTION 3:
SPOK Films - Jožko Rutar, Miha Černec
Volarje 4
5220 Tolmin, Slovenia
Tel: +386 41 378 527
E-mail: jozko.rutar@gmail.com
Social Media: @spokfilms - Instagram
PRODUCTION 4:
The Film Kitchen - Lisette Kelder, Ineke Kanters
s-Gravendijkwal 22 bg, 3014 EB
3014 Rotterdam, Netherlands
Tel: +31 6 15950989
E-mail: info@thefilmkitchen.nl
Web: http://www.thefilmkitchen.nl
Social Media: @thefilmkitchennl – Instagram
PRODUCTION 5:
Mattima Films - Andrew Grant
Gjennomgangen 12 8622 Mo i Rana, Norway
Tel: +47 92 65 88 96
E-mail: info@mattimafilms.com
Web: https://www.mattimafilms.com
Social Media: @mattimafilms – Instagram
ITALIAN DISTRIBUTION:
Officine UBU - Simone Totola
Via M. Gioia 65
20124 Milan - Italy
Mob. +39 3807283535
Tel. +39 0287383020
PRESS OFFICE:
Charles McDonald - Team PR
Tel: +44 7785 246 377
E-mail: cmcdonald@teampr.co.uk
ITALIAN PRESS OFFICE:
ECHO GROUP
Stefania Collalto
Tel: +39 339 4279472
E-mail: collalto@echogroup.it
Lisa Menga
Tel: 347 5251051
E-mail: menga@echogroup.it
Giulia Bertoni
Tel: 338 5286378
E-mail: bertoni@echogroup.it
