How to Catch a Butterfly
Kiriko Mechanicus
In 2021, 21-year-old Robert Aaron Long kills 8 Asian women in massage parlors in Atlanta, Georgia as a way to suppress his uncontrollable sexual desire. Dutch-Japanese filmmaker Kiriko Mechanicus writes letters to the young murderer to find out what his killings have to do with her sexual life. What do our racial fetishes tell us about our hidden human desires?
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The Body of Crime reflects on and reconstruct acts of crime. Moving from an epistolary documentary to animation, from a computer-generated reconstruction to a Kafkaesque court drama, this program explores how crime is narrated, visualized and judged. Each film examines a different case, while we inhabit shifting positi...
Credits
- Director
- Kiriko Mechanicus
- Producer
- Ilja Roomans
- Year
- 2026
- Country of production
- Netherlands, The
- Type
- Documentary
- Genre
- Short film
- Duration
- 26 minutes
- Spoken language
- English
- Subtitles
- EN
- Production company
- Docmakers