Triggered

Tentative Completion Date February 2023

English | India, USA Documentary Feature | 100 mins Awaiting World Premiere

Triggered unearths the life of Charles Krafft, the world-renowned ceramicist and accidental hero of the alt-right, who died in June 2020. Born into privilege, Krafft rejected his upbringing by adopting outrageous bohemian personas- painter, poet, sculptor. Triggered tracks the artist’s path from his hilariously delinquent childhood to his provocations in the art world. In the 1990s, Krafft found the magic combination of form, material and subject that meant fame. The Porcelain War Museum -- lifesize assault weapons cast and painted in the delicate style of 17th-century Delft ceramics – was celebrated around the world. Yet Krafft would die an outsider once again, shunned for work that transformed Nazi iconography into kitschy, ridiculous, triggering pieces of Delftware. Despite new acclaim, in 2013, an art critic proclaimed Krafft a holocaust denier and white nationalist. Instantly, Charles Krafft became persona non grata in the art world that had once embraced him.

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