‘Zero Killed’ has been invited to the 11th Macabro International Horror Film Festival in Mexico City (August 16-26, 2012). The film will screen in Mexico City on
August 17th, 2012, 7pm @ CCU Tlatelolco
August 23rd, 2012, 12am @ CCU sala Carlos Monsiváis
August 26th, 2012, 4pm @ Cine Lido
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The First Horror Film Festival in Mexico that is dedicated to the promotion and exhibition of national and international fantastic, horror and cult films.
‘Zero Killed’ will be shown at the 13th Melbourne Underground Film Festival.
‘Zero Killed’ goes Australia! We’ve been selected for the 6th Sydney Underground Film Festival.
We are proud to announce that ‘ZERO KILLED’ will be screening at the South Texas Underground Film Festival in Corpus Christi, Texas, USA. The Festival will run between September 21 – 27, 2012.
Another Film Festival for ‘Zero Killed’ in the USA – this time the movie will be screened at the 8th Dragon*Con Independent Film Festival in Atlanta, Georgia!
‘Zero Killed’ has been selected for the 5th Annual Minneapolis Underground Film Festival.
‘Zero Killed’ is officially selected for the ‘New Talents Competition’ of the 12th International Film Festival in Sopot, Poland (July 14 – 22, 2012). The screening of ‘Zero Killed’ will be on
‘Zero Killed’ has been nominated for the ‘Prize for the best film for the sharpest vision on Man and Woman’ in the International Documentary Competition (July 2 – 22, 2012). The Film will be shown on
Pärnu Int. Documentary Film Festival, founded in 1987, is the oldest film festival in Estonia. The aim of the festival in general is to support cultural survival of peoples. Only documentary films of high value and quality, recording human activities in social, historical or ecological context are accepted for competition screenings. Main subjects are Human Interest, Social Issues, Art, Music, Culture, Survival of Indigenous Cultures, Docs for Kids, Author’s POV. The festival is held every July. An international jury awards the grand prix for the best film. Since 1999, a separate competition has been held for films, that will be broadcast in Estonian Television (Estonian People’s Award).
‘Zero Killed’ is in the official selection at the Fright Night Film Festival in Louisville, Kentucky. The screening is on
Mindpirates Vereinsheim Berlin presents an outdoor screening of Michal Kosakowski’s movie ‘Zero Killed’.
We are proud to announce our 1st award for ‘ZERO KILLED’ at the 19th CHICAGO UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL!!!
Anyone who wants to join the world premiere of ‘Zero Killed‘ at TIFF – Transilvania International Film Festival and the U.S. Premiere at CUFF – Chicago Underground Film Festival – here are the screening dates:
Kunstpalais Erlangen in co-operation with Manhattan-Kinos present the exclusive German Premiere of Michal Kosakowski’s new movie ‘Zero Killed’. After the screening Michal Kosakowski will give Q&A to the audience. Presentation by Prof. Dr. Kay Kirchmann – film and television Department of Theatre and Media Studies at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg.
We are pleased to announce that ‘Zero Killed’ has been officially selected for the Fright Night Film Festival in Louisville, Kentucky, USA.
‘Zero Killed’ has been officially selected for the 19th Chicago Underground Film Festival:
Michal Kosakowski‘s work as a film-maker and artist is characterised by a preoccupation with media-related depictions of violence.
Murder, mayhem, violence: Where do such fantasies originate? A conversation with film-maker Michal Kosakowski, who made normal people act out fantasies they usually keep under wraps. A glimpse into the interior life of people just like you and me.
Death must be at home in Vienna: At the Erlanger Kunstpalais artists enquire after fantasies of blood and the images in one’s own mind.
We are proud to announce the world premiere of our film ‘Zero Killed’ at
People talk about their murder fantasies and live them in short films. 10 years later they are once again interviewed; the clips and interviews are combined to create a film. Director Michal Kosakowski, post production sound supervisor Olaf Mierau, sound designer Tatjana Jakob and composer Paolo Marzocchi will talk about their work between the extremes, mere ‘making-it-bearable’ and dealing with the yawning chasms of one’s own soul. Moderation: Vasco Hexel.
Experimental filmmaker, documentarist and media artist Michal Kosakowski’s collaborators include controversial photographer Oliviero Toscani as well as the director of the Venice Film Festival, Marco Müller. As preparation for the following interview I’ve selected from Kosakowski’s impressive body of work pieces where he deals with the murder fantasies that quite normal people – most of them, possibly, without any notable police record – from Austria, Germany and Poland, indulge in. Kosakowski gave their fantasies cinematic and dramaturgical support. Over several years (1996–2007) this work developed into his kaleidoscopic project ‘Fortynine’, a collection of short films, which has now mutated into the recent documentary fiction ‘Zero Killed’ (2011), for which self-reflexive interviews with the ‘murderers’ were added. My intention was to talk with him about the meeting zones in which bodies are penetrated, be it with murder weapons, genitals, or other implements. It is in such zones that the term hardcore regains its original interpretation: this is about the core of libidinal behaviour patterns which, emotionally charged to breaking point, are released in a consistent and forceful manner that could hardly be more trivial. It is my conclusion that the murders in their violent depictions meet the pornography of extremes, complete with stranglings, beatings, ejaculations, vomiting, and painful anal penetration. And yet it all remains within the scope of what can be found in the commercial sex film business and its availability via video rental shops, mail order, and the Internet – it’s just that bit harder than hardcore, that’s all. And it is precisely this banality of violence and sex that is subject to massive taboos (who talks about it?) and ostensible (?) libidinal sub-complexity. 
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