"NIMB - Not in my backyard" is a saying in America, if you do not want to have something near him. Whether it is a wind power plant, transmission line, a radio transmitter or a sex offender released from prison. So-called "sex offender" and the rigorous treatment of them in the U.S., the Ludwigsburg Film student Matthias Bittner his documentary "Not in my back yard" shot, which was today premiered morning as part of the currently held Film Festival of Locarno.
Teofilo is a Latino middle-aged Americans. He lives in Miami on the road, ie in an urban park. Not because he wanted to live homeless, but because he must. As a convicted "Sex Offender" - that sex offenders - all his proximity to schools, kindergartens and places is prohibited, which can reside on potentially children. About GPS locatable electronic shackles he is under police surveillance around the clock. With his documentary "Not in my backyard", the Ludwigsburg Film student Matthias Bittner has ventured on an awkward topic. But not in Germany but in the U.S.. What is often demanded zulande here is, there is already a reality. Rigorous exclusion of relevant offenders.
The policy of total social exclusion of sex offenders is also true Elliott. He has at least one apartment. However, his neighbors know about all the details of his personality and of course know of his crime. About the appropriate Internet portal of the police. The Matthias Bittner also served to prepare for his film.
Elliott speak haltingly and Teofilo also about what they have done before Bittner's camera. The director asks from off persistent after ...
Although in "Not in my backyard" everything comes to language, Matthias Bittner maintains the necessary distance from his protagonists and is far from trivializing the sexual abuse of children or even to apologize.
He found it a precise cinematic expression that goes beyond the sober Reporti out and produces a convincing social context - without which there would be an additional comment is necessary. Formally an accomplishment!
In an enlightened, modern society has also the man who has committed a crime and punished for it, can then expect that he will be treated with dignity and respect. Everything else is a throwback to medieval times! Matthias Bittner turned to with "Not in my backyard" an important and unique in form and content of the film ... was to be loaded one right after Locarno. ..Source.. by Filmspaicher Das SWR-Kino-Blog
