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June 02, 2005
The truth and untruth of I am a Sex Addict
Caveh Zahedi's I Am A Sex Addict is making the festival circuit; in a long Q&A with the SF Bay Guardian's Johnny Ray Huston, the Iranian-American director, who stars, directs and confesses, observes of the picture's style, "I've always had this dream of a film that would be both a film and the making of a film somehow combined. I don't know why I feel the need for that – maybe it's genetic, because it's something that Iranian filmmakers do frequently. For me it's a question of the ontology of what you're saying. To just say something – you can't do that anymore. You have to explain how you're saying it and why you're saying it in a way that has the correct level of self-consciousness and irony. It stems for our culture and how everything is so fake and suspect that you have to really address the foundations from which you're speaking. So it was a way of really challenging the truth of what I was talking about and the untruth – to put that in the right pitch."
Posted by at June 2, 2005 02:15 PM
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