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June 18, 2006
I am a blog addict: Caveh Zahedi likes this review
Filmmaker Caveh Zahedi cites Steven Shaviro's review of I Am A Sex Addict as one of his favorites, and this paragraph is pretty damn good: "We have a kind of cliche sense that confessional honesty needs to be delivered in a tone of wrenching anguish. One of the most noteworthy things about I Am A Sex Addict is the way that it demolishes this cliche. Has there ever been a film that is so raw in its self-revelations, and at the same time, not only so wry in the telling, but so highly mediated? The point, I think, is that there is no contradiction here, 
no opposition between truth and artifice. We live in a hypermediated world, and the media are part of the reality of that world. Godard said somewhere that film is not an image of reality, but rather the reality of that image. And that's precisely what's happening in Zahedi's film. His relation with the video camera is as much a part of his subjectivity as any of the obsessions that he recounts and reenacts onscreen. The story of how he made the film, and of the divergence between the actresses on screen and the real people they portray, cannot be disentangled from the story of his addiction and how he overcame it."
Posted by Ray Pride at June 18, 2006 01:15 PM
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