Get A Life / Goatman Act

GET A LIFE, DANMARK 2004, dir.: Michael Klint, 60min., English version
The film complies with the rules of “dogumentarism”, as drafted by Lars von Trier. If Dogme 95 aimed at transforming the narration of fiction cinema, the next codex is looking to purge documentary filmmaking from what makes it unreliable and untruthful. At the outset of the film, the director has to defend its content: Michale Kling warns the viewers of the horrifying images that render the situation in a children’s hospital in upper Nigeria, where patients with grave gangrenous illnesses are treated. The combination of third world poverty and structural experiment, however, results in an unsettling of ethical discourse…

GOATMAN ACT, NL 2004 , director.: Rogier Klomp, 30 min., English version
By choosing animation as a method of documentary filmmaking this Dutch director has breached the convention that documentary depends on a true–to–life record, while the hyperbolic caricatures of animation belong to the realm of fiction. Rogier Klomp works with real facts and precise information, mapping the American expansion in the immutable mechanics of media deception. His historical excursion into the American nuclear programme is a sarcastic, typographic collage on the propaganda of American governments surrounded by the omnipresent secret service.

The partner of the screening is International Documentary Film Festival Jihlava.