Craigslist Allstars

A film by

the Netherlands / Finland | 65' | 11/2016 | documentary

Through Craigslist, an internationally active internet network, performance artist Samira Elagoz arranges one-on-one meetings with a wide variety of men in three cities and explores how the camera influences intimacy between two strangers: The documentarian and the subject. The set up is simple - she brings a camera, and films how they get to know each other. Every encounter is real and unscripted. Weaving her own presence in and out of the various scenes, she becomes part of the narrative. Instead of making a film she enters one. It makes little difference in which part of the world her subjects are living – they are all lonely in some way, shape or form.

Samira Elagoz

Biography

Samira Elagoz (1989, Helsinki) is a Finnish/Egyptian artist currently based in Amsterdam. She graduated as a choreography BA from the Amsterdam University of the Arts in July 2016. For the last years she has meticulously explored the possibilities of encounters with strangers through screens, lenses and cyberspace. In 2014 Elagoz won the visual art competition Blooom Award in Cologne out of 1200 applicants, with her first short film Four Kings. In 2016 her performance/documentary Cock, Cock.. Who’s There? won the André Veltkamp Award.

Filmography

  • The Young and the Willing (2017)
  • Craigslist Allstars (2016)
  • Four Kings (2014)

Square Eyes -

Crew

Director: Samira Elagoz
Editing: Samira Elagoz
Cinematography: Samira Elagoz
Producer: Samira Elagoz
Co-production: AHK, Amsterdam University of the Arts

Festivals

  • International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, the Netherlands (16 – 27 November, 2016)
    ParaDox
  • CPH:DOX Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, Denmark (16 – 26 March, 2017)
    DOX:AWARD Competition
  • Motel Mozaique, the Netherlands (7 – 8 April, 2017)
  • fest Muenchen, Germany (3 – 14 May, 2017)
    DOK.Special
  • BELDOCS – International Documentary Film Festival Belgrade, Serbia (8 – 15 May, 2017)
    Feel-Good-Movies
  • CinéDOC – Tbilisi, Georgia (11 – 16 May, 2017)
    International Competition
  • Docs Against Gravity Film Festival, Poland (12 – 21 May, 2017)
  • SPRING, the Netherlands (18 – 27 May, 2017)
  • Encounters South African International Documentary Film Festival, South-Africa (1 – 11 June, 2017)
  • Dokufest – International Documentary and Short Film Festival, Kosovo (4 – 12 August, 2017)
    FAKE IT SO REAL focus
  • Open City Documentary Festival, United Kingdom (5 – 10 September, 2017)
    Official Selection
  • Sydney Underground Film Festival, Australia (14 – 17 September, 2017)
    Official Documentary Selection
  • Helsinki International Film Festival – Love & Anarchy, Finland (14 – 24 September, 2017)
  • Queer Lisboa – International Queer Film Festival, Portugal (15-23 September 2017)
    Queer Art Competition
  • Nederlands Film Festival, the Netherlands (20 – 29 September, 2017)
    Forum van de Regissurs
  • Queer Porto – International Queer Film Festival, Portugal (4-8 October 2017)
    Special on self-representation
  • Rokumentti Rock Film Festival, Finland (15 – 19 November, 2017)
  • this human world – International Human Rights Film Festival, Austria (30 November – 10 December, 2017)
    Official Selection
  • Transcinema International Film Festival, Peru (1 – 9 December, 2017)
    International Competition
  • Nordic Film Festival, Iceland (22 – 26 February, 2018)
    Nordic Films
  • Finn FilmNapok, Hungary (February, 2018)
  • EDOC – International Documentary Film Festival, Ecuador (9 – 20 May, 2018)
    Official Selection
  • Chicago Underground Film Fest, United States (6 – 10 June, 2018)
    Official Selection Won: The Spirit Of Cuff Award