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LETTING A DOG DIE FROM STARVATION IS ART ?
Email
received October 18,
2007
PETITION
A
dog was left to die from starvation and thirst as part of an "art
project", children were asked to provoke and scare the dog.
The dog died during this "exposition" and because of this art
project the artist was selected to take part in the Bienal
Centroamericana Honduras 2008.
Please
don't let this monster get away with this cruelty and
sign the petition
on the petition site and send your opinion to the Bienal:
bienalcostarica@ gmail.com
info@madc.ac.cr
Okt07: WSPA Costa Rica reacted already
in this matter.
For further info see http://wspa.or.cr/
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Sent by Le Petit Chien
http://www.google.es/url?q=http://www.youtube.com/
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video
The
website of the kitten killer:
http://www.toepler.fw.hu/
and
his e-mail: toepler@estmail.hu
Website
of the Hungarian Film Week that awarded the
film:
http://www.szemle.film.hu/object
Office
address: Budapest 1075, Rumbach S. u. 12.
Phone number: +36 1 327 0006
Fax number: +36 1 266 8534
e-mail: info@szakma.film.hu
Video
*(warning!!!! very graphic images)
http://index.hu/kultur/cinematrix/ccikkek/alszent4670
PETITION:
http://www.petitiononline.com/faszzolt/petition.html
AW:
Babykatze für Kunstfilm "live"ertränkt
Kitten killed in the name of fine arts
Hypocritical
Saint (Álszent, hungarian experimental motion picture,
currently
w/o IMDB page) presented at 38th Hungarian Film Week
shows
explicitly the suffocation of a cat. Torture of an animal -
or is it fine
art?
The jury denies any knowledge of the shooting conditions of the
film
about cult activist, even while in february it was no sort of
secret.
Best Experimental Film was awarded to Hypocritical Saint directed
by
"Nicolaus MYSLICKI", a motion picture, that shows the
suffocation and agony
of a cat for more than two minutes.
The scene is not a trickery, the cat actually dies after long pains
and suffering, as hungarian internet movie
portal
http://images.gmx.net/images/gmx/
Filmpont.hu
http://filmpont.hu/
Animal abuse in
sect movie
The movie, depicting a sect leader seeking the way of God, won the
award for
being outrageous in shooting and in storyboard, and for
depicting a sacral
topic in unconventional ways.
Director and dramatist Zoltan TOEPLER (using pen
http://images.gmx.net/images/gmx/# name
Nickolaus MYSLICKI)
admitted, that the animal died during the shot,
while he was defending with the cat was sick, and was awaiting
mercy killing on the next day.
http://eux.tv/article.aspx?articleId=7290
Saturday,
April 28, 2007 at 10:15
Subject: /Hungary-Entertain/Crime/
Hungarian police investigate kitten murder in film
Budapest (dpa) - Hungarian police are investigating a film
director after an
animal-protection charity reported him for
drowning a kitten in a scene from
a recent prize-winning
film.
The Herman Otto Animal and Nature Defence Association reported
Zoltan
Toepler after he admitted that a kitten really died in the
scene from his
film Alszent (Hypocrite).
A statement by the association said the animal had been killed
with the
greatest possible suffering to achieve "the desired
effect," and called this
a serious crime against society.
The association said that according to Hungarian law, animals
could only be
killed for acceptable reasons, such as incurable
illnesses and academic
research.
It also pointed out that animals could only be killed by drugs,
as this
caused the least suffering.
Toepler released a statement in response to hate mail, including
death
threats, he received after the complaint came to light.
The director said that while the animal had been killed, he had
received the
footage from an outside source.
"I didn't drown the kitten, but when a colleague showed me the
footage, I
said this must go in the film," he said. ""When I asked
where the footage
came from, I was told that it was a sick animal
incapable of living that was
put down."
"I would judge those who torture feeling creatures, but not the
cameraman
who filmed it," he continued.
The film, which Toepler made under the name Nicolaus Myslicki,
won a special
prize at the 2007 Hungarian Film Week for best
experimental short.
Members of the film-week jury said in statement on the event's
website that
they would withdraw the award if it could be proven
beyond a doubt that the
animal was killed simply for the sake of
the film.