Interview with filmmaker Kurtz Frausun

  Straight Jacket Guerrilla Film Festival  (2017)

What does your film Peacock express about today’s generation?

That they are desperately searching for definition. The Artist for his Muse. We are a blank and lost generation with too much empty hope. 

What social circumstances lead you to make your new film?

I broke up with my ex before the start of the film after she tried stabbing me during a nervous breakdown. She was my Muse and after losing her, especially with a threat to my life, I realized I needed to document my experience. I spent two months editing with barely any sleep. Started hallucinating, but made it through. 

What do you think about the PINK8 Manifesto & Punk Cinema?

Punk Cinema is what we need more of. Hollywood is a shit storm that, with any hope, will come crashing down on itself like a diseased temple. 

Whats next for you?

I'm opening my own gallery in Irving where I will be featuring my kinky photography work. I'm also working on a documentary about the Trans experience. 

INTERVIEW with filmmaker Kurtz Frausun

 

What does your film express about todays generation?

That no matter how much time passes in the human experience, we are all still searching and needing love, to be inspired. 

What social circumstances lead you to make your new film?

My girlfriend, a woman I considered my Muse, had a nervous breakdown and kept trying to kill herself. Eventually we had her committed for her own well being and after she came out, she was worse. The relationship officially ended and I wanted to capture all the mad emotion tied into romance and art. Took me a few weeks to shoot, 2 months to edit. I slept 3 hours a night and started hallucinating. So when I would record what I saw, and there was nothing there, I decided to create in post production what I had witnessed. Ended up winning an award at the London Film Awards

What do you think about the PINK8 Manifesto & Punk Cinema?

It's the core of what inspired me to first pick up a camera and use it as a weapon. 

Whats next for you?

I'm creating a sci-fi pilot. Just finished the first half. One of my docs was picked up for distribution so I'm working on promotions for that and I'm wrapping up another experimental film called "Blood of Jupiter," which explores my own battle with depression.