Passion
After getting out of a bad relationship, filmmaker Maja Borg looks into two rituals: Christianity and BDSM. At first glance, religion and subculture couldn't be more different, but maybe they have something in common when it comes to how they help people heal. Borg faces herself and her deep personal traumas in a dark and theatrical way while looking at the gay scene in Europe and the Christian history of northern Europe. She does this to get back to her own core. In 'Passion,' passion and suffering are two sides of the same complicated case. The film's transcendental imagery brings together literary and film traditions into a ceremonial whole. But the abstractions give the film's meetings, in which Borg is tested in both body and soul, a sense of human depth. And maybe it's this sense of humanity that makes theology and BDSM connect on an emotional and maybe even spiritual level.