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Cinema is not only entertainment but also a place to experience the reality of distant worlds, a tool of comprehension, and an occasion for empathy.
Through the films we have discussed, FILMEXPLORER proposes four reflections on the ongoing aggression of the Russian Army in Ukraine, for culture is the best political commitment against violence and arrogance.
THE ARROGANCE OF THE LOSERS
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It can sound akin to an argument of folk psychology but bullying and tyranny are often the typical expression of losers, and losers are not only the slaves but also, and moreover, the tyrants that try to treat entire peoples as slaves.
Our journey into the dynamic of Russian illiberalism starts with Alexander Zeldovich’s MEDEA, a sort of cinematographic paradigm of arrogance and ambition that conceals artistic and cultural misery.
« […] would Medea be an underhand form of propaganda for authoritarian governments in search of cultural legitimation? »
From bombastic cinema misery to human mediocrity: let’s come back to Vitaly Mansky’s exceptional document of PUTIN'S WITNESSES.
Another documentary film, Milo Rau’s DIE MOSKAUER PROZESSE, and a theatrical fantasy, Oleg Sentsov’s NUMBERS, scrutinizes the absurd and inhuman consequences of the Russian illiberal regime.
When nationalism becomes militarism, we get only losers…
This can also happen in the middle of Berlin, while happily singing traditional songs – as Sergei Loznitsa’s VICTORY DAY brilliantly, and disquietingly, shows
Here Filmexplorer's exceptional I NTERVIEW WITH SERGEI LOZNITSA (Black Movie Genève 2019)
Censorship, conformism, and militarism destroy physical and mental freedom, so that the person disappears, and the loser appears.
It is a Russian thread that we could already let materialize in our SHORT PAGES selection of…
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