Tag: Jörg Buttgereit

“I hate directors who take themselves very seriously. I think this is ridiculous.” The enfant terrible of German arthouse cinema, the writer/director Jörg Buttgereit is softly spoken and

While never destined to reach a wide audience – a thought that would perhaps shock him just as much as his work would shock the masses – the

In a genre littered with controversial films, works which have been heavily censored or outright banned, Jörg Buttgereit’s 1987 Nekromantik is in a league of its own, an

Introducing the screening at Dead by Dawn, festival director Adèle Hartley described Joseph Wartnerchaney’s feature debut Decay as “a very familiar setup,” but praised the writer/director’s ability to