Antoinette Zwirchmayr
Antoinette Zwirchmayr was born in 1989 in Salzburg, Austria. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Her work has been shown at festivals such as the Berlinale, the Toronto International Film Festival and the Oberhausen International Short Film Festival. She has made several short experimental documentaries including a trilogy about her family history: The Pimp and His Trophies (2014) about her pimp grandfather, Josef - Täterprofil meines Vaters (Josef - My father's Criminal Profile, 2015) about her father who committed a bank robbery before immigrating to Brazil and Im Schatten der Utopie (The Shadow of Utopia, 2017)
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The Pimp and His Trophies
Prostitution, pimping and human trafficking are universal phenomena of society and at the same time a taboo in public discourse. Being the granddaughter of one of Salzburg’s most infamous pimps, I have encountered a perpetrator on a truly intimate level. My goal is not to shock, but to show the reality behind the façade, with all of its cracks, to expose the many facets of truth that lie beneath.
The Pimp and His Trophies
Prostitution, pimping and human trafficking are universal phenomena of society and at the same time a taboo in public discourse. Being the granddaughter of one of Salzburg’s most infamous pimps, I have encountered a perpetrator on a truly intimate level. My goal is not to shock, but to show the reality behind the façade, with all of its cracks, to expose the many facets of truth that lie beneath.
