Cyrus Frisch



Cyrus Frisch (born 1969) is a Dutch avant-garde film maker. Filmmaker magazine called him the wild man of Dutch film.

His debut feature film Forgive Me premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2001. Frisch made the first narrative film shot with a mobile phone, Why Didn't Anybody Tell Me It Would Become This Bad in Afghanistan, that premiered at Dutch film festivals in 2007.

Filmography

 * De Kut van Maria (short film) (1990)
 * Welcome 1 (short film) (1991)
 * Welcome 2 (short film) (1992)
 * Screentest (short film) (1992)
 * Selfpity / Zelfbeklag (experimental film) (1993)
 * Live Experimenteren (medium-length documentary film) (1995)
 * Geen titel (medium-length documentary film) (1996)
 * I Shall Honour Your Life (short documentary film) (1996)
 * Forgive Me (feature film) (2001)
 * Why Didn't Anybody Tell Me It Would Become This Bad in Afghanistan / Waarom heeft niemand mij verteld dat het zo erg zou worden in Afghanistan (docufiction) (2007)
 * Blackwater Fever (feature film) (2008)
 * Dazzle (aka Oogverblindend) (2009)
 * Ellen ten Damme, "Stay" (music video)