Films A to Z
Uncut
- Runtime:
- 92 min.
- Year of Production:
- 1997
- Country:
- Kanada
- Director:
- Cast:
- Matthew Ferguson
Daniel MacIvor
David Roche
Michael Achtman
Damon D'Oliveira
Maria Reidstra
Alexandra Webb
Helene Ducharme
Shaftiq Ettienne - Production Company:
- Grey Zone
- Berlinale Section:
- Panorama
- Berlinale Category:
- Documentary Film
Freely drawing from a variety of film genres, including musicals, the sudsy melodramas and documentaries and combing them with a free-flowing narrative and bright pop-art sensibilities, this hard-hitting experimental romp from Canadian filmmaker John Greyson packs a political wallop while satirically comparing and contrasting the issues of censorship and circumcision. The tale centers on the exploits of three homosexuals named Peter. Peter Koosens is obsessed with the semi-scandalous behavior of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau while college student Peter Cort, ponders the significance and necessity of male circumcision. Peter Denham is an artist who seduces the other two and freely borrows from their work to make something of his own. Their exploits land the trio in prison after an operatic number (the police sing songs adapted from Bizet's Carmen). Though they are housed in the same facility the Petes have no normal way of communicating. To this end, they devise their own unique manner, one that has results that are simultaneously amazing and tragic. (Source: Sandra Brennan, Rovi)
UNCUT was given a special mention by the TEDDY jury in 1998.
BIOGRAFIE John Greyson
The Canadian film and video artist was born in Nelson, British Columbia in 1960. He studied film at the Canadian Film Center and has made over 60 award-winning feature films, installations, transmedia works and shorts. In 1989, he won a Teddy Award for Urinal; in 1991, he received another for The Making of Monsters. His work combines documentary and fictional elements and explores issues including queer activism, homophobic violence, AIDS activism, anti-apartheid and anti-war struggles, conflicts in the Middle East, police entrapment and prison abolition. He has taught film production at York University in Toronto since 2014.
FILMOGRAFIE John Greyson (selection)
2021 International Dawn Chorus Day
2020 Prurient
2020 Auterson Clock
2018 Towel
2018 Gazonto
2017 Memurial
2011/2012 Teddy Kurzfilmrolle 2012
2011 Green Laser
2010 Rex Vs. Singh
2010 Covered
2008 Fig Trees
2007 Orange Clouds
1997 Uncut
1993 Zero Patience
1990 The Making of Monsters
1988 Urinal