Cyrus Frisch
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Cyrus Frisch is a Dutch avant-garde filmmaker.
Filmmaker Magazine called him the wild man of Dutch film. According to Holland Film Frisch is one of the most daring filmmakers currently working in Holland.
His debut feature film Forgive me, meant as a critique of reality-TV culture, premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam
(2001) and set his name as a controversial filmmaker. Frisch himself plays the lead in that film. He pretends to be a devilish director without any ethical boundaries in search for the ultimate, exciting (fiction) film. He uses a group of (real) social outcasts and mentally handicapped as actors.
Frisch is known to have made the first fictional feature film shot with a mobile phone
: Why Didn't Anybody Tell Me It Would Become This Bad in Afghanistan
, that premiered at major film festivals: the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2007, Tribeca Film Festival
2007, the San Francisco International Film Festival
2007, Pesaro 2007, and several others. According to Dutch newspaper Trouw, Frisch pinpoints the insanity of western society nowadays with this film as precisely as Polanski did in the '60s with Repulsion (31-05-2007). In Film Comment Magazine (March–April 2010) Olaf Muller argues that Frisch's films "embody the stupor we're in as a civilization". The Guardian
writes that Frisch is a celebrity in Holland, known for tackling difficult subjects (4 February2007). After graduating from Dutch Film Academy in 1992 he was nominated for the Grolsch Award, one of the most prestigious film awards in the Netherlands.
In 2009 Frisch finished Dazzle (aka Oogverblindend) he started shooting 15 years ago, with Dutch star-actress Georgina Verbaan
and Rutger Hauer in the lead. Indiewire's Eric Kohn describes Dazzle as a super-cool cinematic challenge. A Repulsion-like thriller stuffed into the aesthetics of a Chris Marker diary film. According to the Tribeca film festival catalogue, in Dazzle, Frisch creates his own unique vision of a socially engaged cinema.
Dazzle is said to be Hauer's first film in his homecountry in 29 years.
Cyrus Frisch also became known as a playwright
. Gharb, "A short, sharp, blast of a play" (The Stage / 15-10-2004) was performed in different languages in Holland, France
, Austria
and England
in 2004.
Has been nicknamed Cyrus the Great.
Filmmaker Magazine called him the wild man of Dutch film. According to Holland Film Frisch is one of the most daring filmmakers currently working in Holland.
His debut feature film Forgive me, meant as a critique of reality-TV culture, premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam
International Film Festival Rotterdam
The International Film Festival Rotterdam is an annual film festival held in various cinemas in Rotterdam, Netherlands held at the end of January. It is approximately comparable in size to other major European festivals such as Cannes, Venice, Berlin, and Locarno...
(2001) and set his name as a controversial filmmaker. Frisch himself plays the lead in that film. He pretends to be a devilish director without any ethical boundaries in search for the ultimate, exciting (fiction) film. He uses a group of (real) social outcasts and mentally handicapped as actors.
Frisch is known to have made the first fictional feature film shot with a mobile phone
Mobile phone
A mobile phone is a device which can make and receive telephone calls over a radio link whilst moving around a wide geographic area. It does so by connecting to a cellular network provided by a mobile network operator...
: Why Didn't Anybody Tell Me It Would Become This Bad in Afghanistan
Why Didn't Anybody Tell Me It Would Become This Bad in Afghanistan
Waarom heeft niemand mij verteld dat het zo erg zou worden in Afghanistan is the first full length feature film shot with a mobile phone...
, that premiered at major film festivals: the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2007, Tribeca Film Festival
Tribeca Film Festival
The Tribeca Film Festival is a film festival founded in 2002 by Jane Rosenthal, Robert De Niro and Craig Hatkoff in a response to the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the consequent loss of vitality in the TriBeCa neighborhood in Lower Manhattan.The mission of the festival...
2007, the San Francisco International Film Festival
San Francisco International Film Festival
San Francisco International Film Festival is the oldest continuously running film festival in the Americas. Organized by the San Francisco Film Society, the International is held each spring for two weeks, presenting an average of 150 films from over 50 countries...
2007, Pesaro 2007, and several others. According to Dutch newspaper Trouw, Frisch pinpoints the insanity of western society nowadays with this film as precisely as Polanski did in the '60s with Repulsion (31-05-2007). In Film Comment Magazine (March–April 2010) Olaf Muller argues that Frisch's films "embody the stupor we're in as a civilization". The Guardian
The Guardian
The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
writes that Frisch is a celebrity in Holland, known for tackling difficult subjects (4 February2007). After graduating from Dutch Film Academy in 1992 he was nominated for the Grolsch Award, one of the most prestigious film awards in the Netherlands.
In 2009 Frisch finished Dazzle (aka Oogverblindend) he started shooting 15 years ago, with Dutch star-actress Georgina Verbaan
Georgina Verbaan
Georgina Carolina Verbaan is a Dutch actress and singer. Verbaan is best known for her recurring role in soap opera Goede Tijden, Slechte Tijden. She has also appeared in various Dutch films, including Costa!, Volle maan and Oogverblindend.-Early life:Verbaan was born in The Hague, Netherlands...
and Rutger Hauer in the lead. Indiewire's Eric Kohn describes Dazzle as a super-cool cinematic challenge. A Repulsion-like thriller stuffed into the aesthetics of a Chris Marker diary film. According to the Tribeca film festival catalogue, in Dazzle, Frisch creates his own unique vision of a socially engaged cinema.
Dazzle is said to be Hauer's first film in his homecountry in 29 years.
Cyrus Frisch also became known as a playwright
Playwright
A playwright, also called a dramatist, is a person who writes plays.The term is not a variant spelling of "playwrite", but something quite distinct: the word wright is an archaic English term for a craftsman or builder...
. Gharb, "A short, sharp, blast of a play" (The Stage / 15-10-2004) was performed in different languages in Holland, France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
, Austria
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
and England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
in 2004.
Has been nicknamed Cyrus the Great.
Filmography
- Dazzle (aka Oogverblindend) (2009)
- Blackwater Fever (feature film) (2008)
- Ellen ten Damme "Stay" (music video)
- Why Didn't Anybody Tell Me It Would Become This Bad in AfghanistanWhy Didn't Anybody Tell Me It Would Become This Bad in AfghanistanWaarom heeft niemand mij verteld dat het zo erg zou worden in Afghanistan is the first full length feature film shot with a mobile phone...
/ Waarom heeft niemand mij verteld dat het zo erg zou worden in Afghanistan (feature film) (2007) - Forgive Me (feature film) (2001)
- Geen titel (medium-length documentary film) (1996)
- I shall honour your life (short documentary film) (1996)
- Live Experimenteren (medium-length documentary film) (1995)
- Selfpity / Zelfbeklag (experimental film) (1993)
- Welcome 2 (short film) (1992)
- Screentest (short film) (1992)
- Welcome 1 (short film) (1991)
- De Kut van Maria (short film) (1990)