Play With the Devil – Becoming Zeal & Ardor
Switzerland, January 2023
FILM,
Documentary,
72 min.
- directed by
- Olivier Joliat, Matthias Willi
- Status
- In distribution
With his band Zeal & Ardor, Swiss musician Manuel Gagneux was catapulted overnight from the underground to the big stages of the world. The bold mix of Black Metal and old work songs and field hollers by enslaved African-Americans – his answer to a racist provocation on the Internet – is politically explosive. Religion, racism, segregation and appropriation: With his music Gagneux questions and breaks taboos. But being praised as a new kind of leader by his fans frightens the introverted artist. How can he deal with the oversized expectations?
credits
- World Premiere
- January 2023
- Original Version
- English, Swiss-German, German (french/english/german subtitles), colour, DCP, 72 min.
- ISAN
- 0000-0004-8BF8-0000-X-0000-0000-C
- Production
- soap factory GmbH, Recycled TV AG, SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen
- Producer
- Frank Matter, Madeleine Corbat, Peter Guyer
- directed by
- Olivier Joliat, Matthias Willi
- Cinematography
- Matthias Willi
- Editing
- Christian Büttiker
- Location Sound Mix
- Olivier Joliat
- Sound Design
- Peter Von Siebenthal
- Re-Recording Mix
- Peter Von Siebenthal
- Music
- Manuel Gagneux
World Sales / World Rights
- World Rights
- soap factory GmbH
Worldwide Distribution
- Switzerland
- Myfilm VOD
- Switzerland
-
Filmbringer Distribution AG
Distribution
Release date: 16.03.2023 - Switzerland
- filmingo VOD
Festivals
(a selection)
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New York, DOC NYC 2023
08.11.2023 - 16.11.2023 -
Munich, 38. DOK.fest München
03.05.2023 - 14.05.2023 -
Solothurn, 58. Solothurner Filmtage
18.01.2023 - 25.01.2023