The Artist & The Pervert

A documentary provocation that examines the curious BDSM relationship between one of the 21st century’s most important composers, Georg Friedrich Haas, and his African-American wife, the sexually explicit performer and storyteller Mollena Williams-Haas. Beatrice Behn and René Gebhardt’s film gives ample room to both artists and their various fetishes, creating a rather touching portrait of a couple who have found true love later in life, and through a master/slave relationship. The latter aspect of their marriage is where this film really taps in to the zeitgeist, asking the audience to q...