Uncut (1997)
March 23, 1997Release Date
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Michael Achtman
Peter Koosens
Matthew Ferguson
Peter Cort
Damon D'Oliveira
Peter Denham
Maria Reidstra
Officer
Alexandra Webb
Defense Lawyer
Helene Ducharme
Judge
Daniel MacIvor
Newscaster
David Roche
Joe Typist
Shaftiq Ettienne
Fred Typist
Brian Hui
Go-Go Bartender
Paul Bettis
Trudeau
Elmer Bagares
Fur Clad Weeper
Angelo Pedari
Hospital Guard
Carmen Householder-Pedari
Little Girl
Linda Griffiths
Self (uncredited)
Dennis Day
Editor
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Uncut is a 1997 Canadian docudrama film written and directed by John Greyson.Set in Ottawa in 1979, the film stars Matthew Ferguson as Peter Cort, a researcher writing a book on male circumcision, and Michael Achtman as Peter Koosens, his assistant who has a sexual obsession with Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and regularly doctors photographs to depict himself and Trudeau in romantic entanglements.They later meet Peter Denham (Damon D'Oliveira), a video artist who sets his films to Jackson Five songs. After Denham inserts photographs of Koosens and Trudeau into one of his videos, the three are arrested for copyright violation by an opera-singing police officer, put on trial in a courtroom scene set to La Habanera, and sent to a prison boot camp.
The film is also intercut with documentary footage of artists such as John Oswald, A. A. Bronson, Linda Griffiths and Thomas Waugh discussing censorship, as well as Trudeau himself invoking martial law during the 1970 October Crisis.The film was inspired in part by the then emerging debate about outing closeted LGBT people, while the copyright themes were inspired by Greyson's battle with the estate of Kurt Weill over the use of parody versions of Weill songs in his early short film The Making of Monsters.