PASSION
by Maja Borg
synopsis
Having escaped a destructive relationship, film artist Maja Borg explores two ritual practices: Christianity and BDSM. At first glance, the two could hardly be further apart, but perhaps there is a spiritual kinship between religion and subculture in terms of their healing power. Borg confronts herself and her deeply personal traumas in a dark and theatrical form, while exploring the European queer scene and the Christian heritage of northern Europe to find back to her own core. Passion and suffering are two sides of the same complex case in Passion, whose transcendental imagers lets literary and cinematic traditions come together in a ceremonial whole. But the abstractions give a sense of human depth to the film’s encounters, where Borg is challenged in both body and soul. And maybe it is precisely this humanity that proves to be the thing that connects theology and BDSM on an emotional and possibly even spiritual level.
international title: | Passion |
original title: | Passió |
country: | Sweden, Spain |
year: | 2021 |
genre: | documentary |
directed by: | Maja Borg |
film run: | 92' |
screenplay: | Maja Borg |
cinematography by: | Patriez van der Wens, María González Oter, Angello Faccini |
film editing: | Charlotte Landelius |
music: | Katharina Nuttall |
producer: | Andrea Herrera Catalá, Almudena Monzú, Maja Borg, Stina Gardell |
production: | Maja Borg Film, Mantaray Film AB, Amor & Lujo |
backing: | Creative Europe - MEDIA, Swedish Film Institute/Svenska Filminstitutet (SFI) |