Arte/Crime (2011)

In October of 2009, Montreal-based professional special FX artist Remy Couture was entrapped and arrested on charges of obscenity based on his website Inner Depravity, which had lain dormant for nearly two years at the time. After receiving a tip from Interpol following a complaint by a German web user convinced that the website’s photographs and videos were real, Remy was charged and his legal battle still rages on, with a trial set for this fall. The artistic community, enraged at the censorial possibilities this case represents, rallied to his defence. We spoke to filmmaker Frédérick Maheux, whose documentary Art/Crime, documenting the case, makes its World Premiere today at Fantasia.