Recently, three films by Cyrus Frisch have become available through Video on Demand: Why Didn’t Anybody Tell Me It Would Become This Bad in Afghanistan (2007), Blackwater Fever (2008), and Oogverblindend [Dazzle] (2009). Upon the release of the latter film, de Filmkrant wrote that the Netherlands had “at least one director who has a disdain for conventions and fully seeks controversy.” Among Frisch’s admirers are Gaspar Noé and Guy Maddin. The director is currently working on Finally! How a Piece of Wood Managed to Save Us All [working title], part of a comprehensive and ambitious project to address world problems through a series of narrative features. In anticipation of the World Problems Project, now in the pipeline, the present article offers a sketch of a filmmaker who once believed that the best way to initiate a debate on ethics was to operate unethically.