- Uncut (film)
Infobox Film
name = Uncut
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director =John Greyson
producer = John Greyson
writer = John Greyson
music =Andrew Zealley
cinematography = [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0220408/ Kim Derko]
editing = [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0206377/ Dennis Day]
distributor = [http://www.imdb.com/company/co0055299/ Millivres]
released = 1997
runtime = 92 mins
country = Canada
language = English
imdb_id = 0120409"Uncut" is a Canadian
docudrama film, released in1997 . The film was written and directed byJohn Greyson .Set in
Ottawa in1979 , the film starsMatthew Ferguson as Peter Cort, a researcher writing a book on malecircumcision , andMichael Achtman as Peter Koosens, his assistant who has a sexual obsession with Canadian Prime MinisterPierre Trudeau and regularly doctors photographs to depict himself and Trudeau in romantic entanglements.They later meet Peter Denham (
Damon D'Oliveira ), a video artist who sets his films toJackson Five songs. After Denham inserts photographs of Koosens and Trudeau into one of his videos, the three are arrested forcopyright violation by anopera -singing police officer, put on trial in a courtroom scene set to "La Habanera", and sent to a prisonboot camp .The film is also intercut with documentary footage of artists such as
John Oswald ,A. A. Bronson ,Linda Griffiths andTom Waugh discussingcensorship , as well as Trudeau himself invokingmartial law during the 1970October Crisis .External links
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