Didn’t Do It for Love is a portrait of Eva Norvind, aka Mistress Ava Taurel, born in Trondheim, Norway. The film follows Eva’s career from posing as a showgirl in Paris to becoming Mexico’s Marilyn Monroe in the sixties and New York’s most famous dominatrix in the eighties. Today she’s pursuing a degree in Forensic Psychology in order to work with sex offenders because she identifies with sex offender components within herself. Using clips from Norvind’s Mexican movies, stills from various periods, and interviews with her friends, partners and family, the film traces Eva’s search for the wellspring of her obsessive and dark sexuality.
DIDN’T DO IT FOR LOVE
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- Direction: Monika Treut
- Script: Monika Treut
- Cinematography: Ekkehart Pollack, Christopher Landerer
- Editing: Eric Marciano
- Sound: Andreas Pietsch
- Music: Georg Kajanus
- Production: Filmgalerie 451
- Producers: Irene von Alberti
- Format: 16mm
- Color: Colour
- Production Country: Germany
- Production Year: 1997
- Duration: 80'
Monika Treut
Known for films about sexual identity, fearless director Treut's new documentary is a departure from her previous six films. "Warrior of Light" focuses on artist activist Yvonne Bezerra and her work with Rio de Janeiro's street children. The Thessaloniki Documentary Festival's retrospective of Treut also will include "Gendernauts" (1999, about gender fluidity in the Bay Area), "Female Misbehavior" (1992, four portraits of people, from "post-feminist" Camille Paglia to a transsexual Native American) and "Didn't Do It for Love" (1997, a look at a Norwegian-born woman, who was kicked out of Mexico in 1966, became a New York dominatrix in the 80s and counseled sex offenders still later). The "New York Times" called the latter "Adventurous, Erotic, Disturbing". The emblem fits much of Treut's work.
