Jan Soldat

Jan Soldat

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FRAMING ALTERNATE REALITIES: THREE CONVERSATIONS

Filmmakers and artists who use elements of documentary filmmaking in their work – individually, and as a community – pride themselves on being adept at traversing across underground sectors that are still largely perceived as taboo to the general society in one way or another. Usually this has something to do with sex, but not always. While some of us might fancy that we’re more sophisticated and open-minded than most, we all have our distinctive no-fly zones.

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Q & A: JAN SOLDAT

By Pamela Cohn

Jan Soldat’s documentary work is the purest storytelling I’ve seen in cinema. What might blur or mar this purity, at first blush, is the subject matter he tends to choose. But like many filmmakers I’ve spoken to, he uses his craft in order to search, to seek and to satisfy his own unending curiosities about his fellow human beings.

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