NACHTSCHATTEN BDSM/Fetisch Film Festival
NACHTSCHATTEN BDSM/Fetisch Film Festival

No Democracy Here

No Democracy Here
Country Germany/Palestine-Israel Length 25 minutes
Year 2018 Director Liad Hussein Kantorowicz
Language Hebrew Subtitles English
Screenings June 22, 6pm (reservation)
(in section “A job like any other?”) June 26, 8pm (reservation)


“No Democracy Here” is a short film that deals with the topic of political domination. In it, Liad, a lefty human rights defender dominatrix re-educates her right-wing-leaning obedient submissive slaves to follow upstanding leftist ethos and morals like freedom of movement, economical justice, direct democracy, and human rights by using domination practices such as humiliation, doggy-training, coercion, and administration of pain. It’s all consensual!

On election day Liad decides to give her slaves the ultimate political domination session – outdoors and in public, where she teaches them about the pillars of democracy. At the end she forces them to engage in the ultimate political bdsm practice – voting, but only for the ‘correct’ political party, one that reflects her wishes and stands in stark opposition to theirs. The general public, which serves as a witness, interacts and reacts to the political domination and the questions that it poses in its own unpredictable ways. This film wishes to explore the meaning of ‘consent’ and ‘free will’, which are frequently in a bdsm-context, and apply them to the context of electoral democracy and public political processes.

The film was shot on the streets and the voting poles in Israel on and around election day.

Website:
https://liadland.wordpress.com/performances-and-projects/no-democracy-here/

Trailer:

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