29th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival

24. 10.–2. 11. 2025
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Fox Chase Boy
Fox Chase Boy
Fox Chase Boy
Fox Chase Boy

Fox Chase Boy

Kaya Dillon, Gerad Argeros / United States / 2024 / World Premiere / 26 min.


synopsis

The year 2017 was marked by the suicide of a victim of paedophile priest James Brzyski, who by some estimates molested over a hundred boys in Philadelphia in the 1970s and 1980s. One of the survivors is comedian Gerad Argeros, who appears naked, literally and symbolically, before his audience. His cathartic stand-up show is both self-therapy and collective healing. To speak is not to let evil win.

“I'm standing here naked in front of you and I don't care what you think of my little penis. I'm here to tell you what happens to children who are raped. They just disappear.”

biography

Kaya Dillon is a cinematographer and director who has been working in documentary film and advertising for over a decade. For example, he collaborated on Radical Love, which competed at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival. He is currently working on Ring of Fire, a documentary series about the indigenous rights movement in North America. On Fox Chase Boy he collaborated with writer and performer Gerad Argeros.

more about film

director: Kaya Dillon, Gerad Argeros
producer: Kaya Dillon, Gerad Argeros
photography: Kaya Dillon
editing: Robert Kolodny
sound: Lucas Kadar
sound design: Danny Bowersox
executive producer: Drew Wolf

contact

Strata Film Company / Kaya Dillon
kaya.dillon@gmail.com

Screening time

Saturday 26. 10. 2024, 16:30

Horácké divadlo – Velká scéna

Film at festival

premiere type:World Premiere
festival edition:2024
section:Ji.hlava Online, Short Joy
language:English
subtitles:No Subtitles
colour:Colour

Info

director:Kaya Dillon, Gerad Argeros
original title:Fox Chase Boy
country:United States
year:2024
running time:26 min.

Festival partners

Ministerstvo kultury
Fond kinematografie
Město Jihlava
Kraj Vysočina
Creative Europe Media
GEMO
Česká televize
Český rozhlas
Aktuálně.cz
Respekt
Dafilms

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