The eagerly awaited follow-up to Kerekes & Slaters acclaimed Killing for Culture. However, it is when videos depicting the murders of Daniel Pearl and Nick Berg surfaced in the 2000s that an era of genuine atrocity commenced, one that has irrevocably changed the way in which we function as a society. See No Evil: Banned Films and Video Controversy - David Kerekes. Beginning with the mythology of the so-called ‘snuff’ film and its evolution through popular culture, this book traces death and the artifice of death in the ‘mondo’ documentaries that emerged in the 1960s, and later the faux snuff pornography that found an audience through Necrobabes and similar websites. KILLING FOR CULTURE explores these images of death and violence, and the human obsession with looking - and not looking - at them. Others are shot on high definition equipment and professionally edited by organized groups, such as the militant extremists ISIS.
Some of these films are created by lone individuals using shaky camera phones: Luka Magnotta, for instance, and the teenagers known as the Dnipropetrovsk maniacs. Little over a century later the executions are real and the world is aghast at brutalities freely available online at the click of a button. And below you can check out the official new Killing For Culture documentary, The Death Illusion: Murder, Cinema & the Myth of Snuff, directed by David Hinds and written and narrated by occasional Dangerous Mind Thomas McGrath. The father of the modern age, Thomas Edison, fed the appetite for this material with staged executions on film. Killing for Culture available now in special edition out in paperback next year.
Unlike images of sex, which were clandestine and screened only in private, images of death were made public from the onset of cinema.
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