Tweet TweetDirector Kitty Green (3rdR) poses with Femen activists at the Venice Film Festival on September 4, 2013. AFP/GABRIEL BOUYS In a revelation sure to disappoint Femen supporters — and vindicate its critics — a documentary unveiled Wednesday at the Venice Film Festival showed the true, unexpected, face behind the Ukraine-based feminist group: Victor Svyatski. While Svvatski’s participation in the movement was already known — the Ukrainian has oft been cited as a “consultant” to the group — claims of his deeper role have shocked many, including some Femen members. According >>>

This week I have been told that I'm not a feminist, that my fight is not real. I have been told that people don't believe my slogans any more, that my ideas are fake. I have been condemned for fighting male domination in my life, for fighting the patriarchy.The Australian director Kitty Green spent one year with Femen activists in Ukraine shooting a documentary that is showing at the 70th Venice film festival. The film, Ukraine Is Not a Brothel, is a history of Femen. It shows a crucial paradox of the movement, one that has now become a scandal. It concerns one of the men interviewed in the >>>

This week I have been told that I'm not a feminist, that my fight is not real. I have been told that people don't believe my slogans any more, that my ideas are fake. I have been condemned for fighting male domination in my life, for fighting the patriarchy.The Australian director Kitty Green spent one year with Femen activists in Ukraine shooting a documentary that is showing at the 70th Venice film festival. The film, Ukraine Is Not a Brothel, is a history of Femen. It shows a crucial paradox of the movement, one that has now become a scandal. It concerns one of the men interviewed in the >>>

| Print | E-mail Wednesday, 04 September 2013 11:47 <![CDATA[ ]]> Share Link: A new documentary about the Femen topless activists shown in Venice has revealed that the feminist group was founded by a man. The film explores the internal divisions within the Ukrainian group over the guru-like and secretive figure of Victor Svyatski, who is no longer a member. "Ukraine Is Not a Brothel" by Australia's Kitty Green was screened at >>>

“Our mission is protest, our weapons are bare breasts,” runs their slogan. Now, a new documentary screening at the Venice Film Festival has revealed that Femen was founded and is controlled by a man.Ukraine is not a Brothel, directed by 28-year-old Australian film-maker Kitty Green, has “outed” Victor Svyatski as the mastermind behind the group. Mr Syvatski is known as a “consultant” to the movement. According to the Femen website, he was badly beaten up by the secret services in Ukraine earlier this summer because of his activities on behalf of the group.However, Ms Green reveals >>>

File under “retrospectively logical bummers”: There’s a shady male puppet master behind Femen, Ukraine’s topless feminist activists. A new documentary about the group, Ukraine Is Not a Brothel, by 28-year-old Australian Kitty Green, reveals that Victor Svyatski, a self-described “consultant” to Femen, quietly founded and still controls the group. (Disturbing pictures of him after he was beaten by Ukraine secret service (he says) for his involvement in  Femen here.) “It’s his movement and he hand-picked the prettiest girls because the prettiest girls sell more papers,” Green >>>

I am really blown away by the contradiction between Green's claimed support of Femen and her role now in what appears to be it's 'debunking'. The 'patriarch' is not on the front lines, risking his @ss, but the fact that there *may* be a puppet master so to speak (have not seen the film so I can't really attest to what Green claims) seems to be being used to completely invalidate what these women are doing. A more interesting question is surfacing for me here...does the fact that the women are young and attractive in some cases invalidate their bravery? Does it invalidate their risking their >>>

In June 2011, it was revealed that Amina Abdallah Araf – the woman behind the A Gay Girl in Damascus blog – did not exist. The person behind it was revealed to be an American student at Edinburgh University, Tom McMaster. The disappointment was palpable; authenticity – on the web, and elsewhere – is a prized attribute, and when it is eroded, people understandably get angry.Now Australian film-maker Kitty Green has named Victor Svyatski as the wizard behind the curtain of Ukrainian feminist group Femen. Green alleges that Svyatski not only supports the group, as Femen had previously >>>

A new documentary on show at the Venice Film Festival shows that the Ukrainian feminist group, Femen, which runs under the slogan “our mission is protest, our weapons are bare breasts,” was founded, and is controlled, by a man, The Independent reported on Tuesday. The documentary entitled: “Ukraine is not a Brothel,” is directed by 28-year-old Australian film-maker Kitty Green. In the documentary, Green revealed that Victor Svyatski masterminded the group. According to Femen, Syvatski, was previously a “consultant” for the group and he was badly beaten up by the secret services in >>>

Anna Hutsol, the founder of the Ukrainian feminist movement Femen, was recently attacked at a café in Kyiv. She describes how activists are coming under more pressure - and how that is spurring on their work. (29.07.2013)

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