Kill The Artist (Widescreen Edition)

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"Kill The Artist" reveals the extreme measures lawmakers and critics go through to censor Avant-Garde artists, who walk the fine line between art, perversion, religion and devious sexual behavior. "Kill The Artist" is a documentary about artists who got into trouble with the law because of their art-works. Even cartoonist Mike Diana was indicted in his home state of Florida for indecency. He was charged with three counts of obscenity in 1994, spent time in prison and was not allowed to draw for three years. In 2003, after fleeing to New York, Mike showed his artwork in a secret exhibition in Brooklyn. Using never before seen footage along with rare films from Richard Kern, Nick Zedd and German filmmakers Jörg Buttgereit and Olaf Ittenbach, Kill The Artist takes a look at the ultimate power play -- Sex and Death. In the film Richard Kern says, "We wanted it to be as hard as possible. The only restriction we had was, who would do what we wanted to be done." While in the western world violent life like re-enactments of rape and death on film thrive, investigative Journalist and author Yaron Svoray, explains in the film that the reality of sex crimes show how cheap life really can be. His investigation of snuff-movies leads him into the war in Bosnia. As Svoray explains: "Eventually two or three girls are pulled into a classroom and there is a communal rape. When it's finished, one of the guys just says, 'kill the bitches.'" Diana says of the experience: "In a way it was almost flattering that they would feel so strongly. I felt that my artwork must have been effective." "Kill The Artist" reveals the extreme measures lawmakers and critics go through to censure avant-garde artists who walk the fine line between art, perversion, religion and devious sexual behavior.