Indian author Arundhati Roy has announced that she is withdrawing from the Berlin International Film Festival after what she described as “unconscionable statements” by its jury members about Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza.
Writing in India’s The Wire newspaper, Roy said she found recent remarks from members of the Berlinale jury, including its chair, acclaimed director Wim Wenders, that “art should not be political” to be “jaw-dropping”.
“It is a way of shutting down a conversation about a crime against humanity even as it unfolds before us in real time,” wrote Roy, the author of novels and nonfiction, including The God of Small Things.
“I am shocked and disgusted,” Roy wrote, adding that she believed “artists, writers and filmmakers should be doing everything in their power to stop” the war in Gaza.
“Let me say this clearly: what has happened in Gaza, what continues to happen, is a genocide of the Palestinian people by the State of Israel,” she wrote.
I think the Berlinale jury needs to take a look at this list of films.
And when they’ve finished take a look at Picasso’s Guernica.
Just going to leave these here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guernica_(Picasso)
Arundhati Roy is badass
Writing in India’s The Wire newspaper, Roy said she found recent remarks from members of the Berlinale jury, including its chair, acclaimed director Wim Wenders, that “art should not be political” to be “jaw-dropping”.
Fuckin lmao. Does dude think Animal Farm is about talking animals?
Decided to go look up who this guy is.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wim_Wenders
In 2009, Wenders signed a petition in support of director Roman Polanski, who had been detained while traveling to a film festival in relation to his 1977 sexual abuse charges
Someone check the Epstein files for this guy.
To bastardize a very popular quote, everything in this world is about is political, except for politics. Politics is about money.
Meanwhile every politcal event is full of artwork, from music, flyers, videoclips, cartoons to the national anthem.
overtly political art is propaganda which is traditionally shit art
Yes, and yet all the great novels are deeply political, in a philosophical sense.
So is it taste? No, I think it’s more about honesty.
