Octavio Getino on revolutionary cinema (Toward a Third Cinema, 1969): “Insert the work as an original fact in the process of liberation, place it first at the service of life itself, ahead of art; dissolve aesthetics in the life of society: only in this way can decolonization become possible and culture, cinema, and beauty-- at least, what is of great importance to us-- become our culture, our films and our sense of beauty.” We the neo-colonized and colonized peoples of the world need to discard the Hollywood aesthetic, the Hollywood narrative, the Hollywood dictatorship of kitsch. We need to stop this gharbzadegi and build OUR OWN SENSE OF BEAUTY, OUR OWN NARRATIVE, OUR CINEMA, OUR ART, FOR US AND BY US, FOR OUR EMPOWERMENT AND OUR FREEDOM.
Posted on: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 00:14:00 +0000