CRAIGSLIST ALLSTARS (2016)
WINNER OF THE SPIRIT OF CUFF AWARD - CHICAGO UNDERGROUND FESTIVAL 2018
NOMINATED FOR DOX:AWARD - CPH:DOX 2017
NOMINATED FOR FORUM VAN DE REGISSEURS - NEDERLANDS FILM FESTIVAL 2017
NOMINATED FOR BEST INTERNATIONAL FILMS - TRANSCINEMA PERU 2017
NOMINATED FOR QUEER ART - QUEERLISBOA 2017
PREMIERE IDFA 2016
SYNOPSIS
Through Craigslist, an internationally active internet network, Elagoz arranges one-on-one first encounters with a wide variety of men in three cities and explores how the camera influences intimacy between two strangers: The documentarian and the subject. The setup is simple - she brings a camera, and films how they get to know each other. Every encounter is real and unscripted. She weaves her own presence in and out, and becomes part of the narrative. Instead of making a film she enters one. And shares something oddly real with them.
Director, concept, edit, camera: Samira Elagoz
PRESS/REVIEWS
"(★★★★★) Masterful, Craigslist Allstars is a true pearl". -Episodi.fi
"(★★★★★) The result is an indispensable documentary debut, that is not easy to categorize." - Soundvenue.com
"(★★★★) Sincerely and with much vulnerability, she questions sexual role patterns." -Theaterkrant.nl
"Cineuropa talked to up-and-coming artist samira elagoz about her feature debut craigslist allstars, docu-fiction and the male and female gaze" -Cineuropa.org
"..Craigslist allstars is a deeply fascinating piece of work from a fearless artist." -dailygrindhouse.com
“One of our top5 favourite idfa-films by female directors” -Vice.com
“Theatre of Sex and Body Politics: Body, Gender and Representation in "Craigslist Allstars" -MUBI
"One you absolutely must see" -i-D.com
“Samira Elagoz made a documentary that has never been seen before” -Nyt.fi
“Perhaps a perfect example of a female gaze.—- it's uncomfortable to watch. people make personal films about family issues but who really dares to make a film like this, to put something really at stake and play a game with that. ” -IDFA.nl
"the film itself is a masterpiece in improvisation" -superbalist.com
"It’s a very fresh film, different from the rest of the program - pushes the definition of documentary filmmaking" -Nordiskfilmogtvfond.com
"Accurate term for Elagoz’s movie would be “human gaze”. Craigslist Allstars deconstructs the male gaze without putting men under the “female gaze”. the camera is in conversation, the gaze shifts. -Hiff.fi
"IDFA-favorite, one of the most exciting films at the festival" -Parool.nl
"This is something new, something rare and independent." -blogit.kansanuutiset.fi
"Craigslist allstars is an exploration of intimacy between strangers, and all the different forms desire and human connection can take. — the power relationship between artist and subject, man and woman, seductor and seductee is turned on its head again and again, and because Elagoz refuses to editorialise, Craigslist Allstars becomes a confounding portrait of contemporary sexual mores, masculinity, femininity and everything in between. as much a litmus test on your views on these issues as it is a breathtaking film in its own right, craigslist allstars demands to be seen.” -Marijn Lems, Het Huis Utrech, 2016
Examples of bad press:
“Finnish woman ends up fucking and using drugs”
“Only a victim of her own sensationalism?”
“Self recorded sex film or respectful meetings?”
“The highest possible ‘wtf did i just see”
“In bed with the cast”
“Performance artist deliberately trying to shock”
SCREENED AT:
IDFA, Amsterdam (Premiere)
CPH:DOX, Copenhagen, nominated to DOX:AWARD
DokFest Munchen, Munich
Beldocs, Belgrade
Cinedoc Tbilisi, Tbilisi
Docs Against Gravity, Wrocław + Warsaw
Encounters, Cape Town
DokuFest Kosovo, Prizren
Open City Documentary Festival, London
La Casa Encendida, Madrid
Mumok Vienna
The EYE film museum, Amsterdam
Sydney Underground Film Festival, Sydney
Helsinki International Film Festival Love & Anarchy, Helsinki
QueerLisboa, Lissabon, nominated for QueerArt competition
Nederlands film festival, Utrecht, nominated for art film competition
Rokumentti film Festival, Joensuu
This Human World - International Human Rights Film Festival'
Transcinema, Peru, nominated for best international films competition
Beursschouwburg, Brussels
Finnfilm Napok, Budapest
Nordic Film Festival, Reykjavik
EDOC, Ecuador
The Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago
Doc Lounge Stockholm
Campo, Ghent
WORK art centre, Motel Mazaique festival, Rotterdam
Wiesbaden Biennale
