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Article description: Jörg Buttgereit’s two movies Nekromantik and Nekromantik 2 will continue to fascinate and challenge viewers for years to come. Their themes of love, death, and sex are, after all, the most important issues in life. Buttgereit interweaves these topics so forcefully that his movies, shot entirely on narrow gauge film, were at first categorized as splatter films and subsequently confiscated and banned nationwide. However, today they are considered outstanding pieces of art.
In this book six film enthusiastics explain how the controversy they created played out. Interpretations range from the beginnings of the history of film to their place in today’s society with its taboos, possibilities, and mistakes. Buttgereit’s movies radically reflect – both humorously and intelligently – what it means to work with the moving image as well as their significance beyond the genre of film.
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