"As a Director I Want to Show My Own Failure, My Own Intrusion in the Films I Make": Milo Rau on His Venice Premiering The New Gospel

Making its world premiere at this year's -- IRL! -- Venice Film Festival, The New Gospel is the latest work of “utopian documentarism” from Swiss director/writer/critic/lecturer Milo Rau. (Though one might add “biblical provocateur.” As the newly installed artistic director of NTGent, Rau once took out classified ads in a Belgian newspaper seeking modern-day crusaders for a staging based on the city's Jesus-themed Ghent Altarpiece. One read, "Did you fight for IS, or another religion?") ...