Documentary
A Loving Friend
- Dark Arts
DVD coming soon
View the first 5 min of ‘A Loving Friend’
While the Catholic Church is reluctantly facing the exposure of its widespread pedophile culture the arts community internationally is yet to do the same.
A Loving Friend reveals attitudes within influential arts circles that will shock some viewers – the accepted notion of a ‘bad and a ‘good pedophilia where the artist pedophile is seen as culturally nuturing, caring, causing no harm.
With a focus on the Australian artist Donald Friend who lived for many years on the Indonesian Island of Bali, the caustically titled, A Loving Friend reveals a circle of feted Western artists pedophiles who have operated in vulnerable communities across Asia and Australia since the 1930’s.
While ‘ordinary’ pedophiles are despised, many artist pedophiles are excused and continue to enjoy success and critical acclaim.
Western artists resident in Asia such as; the Australian Donald Friend, German Walter Spies and Canadian Colin McPhee, successfully groomed and seduced not only the communities they exploited but also the arts establishment who have bought into the romanticised versions of their lifestyles.
Filmed over four years and with access to communities in Bali and the art world in Australia, director and presenter Kerry Negara brings previously off limits conversations to the screen with an insight that unsettle.
Media Links: Radio
ABC Radio National – The Law Report with Damian Carrick
ABC Radio National – Late Night Live with Phillip Adams
ABC Radio National – Artworks with Amanda Smith
3AW Derryn Hinch Drive Program
Media Links: Print
Creators of Beauty are Capable of Ugliness – Clive Hamilton Sydney Morning Herald 11Jan2010
Bartender Make it Double Standard – Andrew Bolt – Herald Sun 17Dec08
Dark arts – The other side of Donald Friend – Panaroma Cover Canberra Times- by Sally Pryor- 26-10- 09
Myopia of Friend’s Friends – Frank Campbell – letter to editor The Australian 27Nov08
The Artful Complexity of Pedophilia – by Virginia Hausegger National Times – 7 Nov 09
Polanski’s Past Catches Up by Phillip Adams – The Australian 6 Nov 09