tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16398571.post8763372950402570525..comments2023-10-30T11:57:26.749+01:00Comments on SCREENVILLE: The lazy way out (2)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16398571.post-26386956616060107002010-04-24T11:24:20.062+02:002010-04-24T11:24:20.062+02:00Adrian Martin : "Palace does its own festival...<a href="http://www.dinaview.com/?p=1325" rel="nofollow">Adrian Martin</a> : "Palace does its own festivals, but it also ‘hosts’ others, responding to advances from small cultural groups in the Australian, Spanish, German and other communities [..] Palace becomes a partner in programming these events, sourcing prints and doing promotions and sets up the national touring, which is the big HarryTuttlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10721542203087536185noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16398571.post-45778741831401978202010-04-22T10:45:52.568+02:002010-04-22T10:45:52.568+02:00Well when you propose to "build alternate str...Well when you propose to "build alternate structures", it's more along the lines I advocate (to reform the institutional/industrial system) than Adrian's laissez-faire you defend (stick to what critics do : promote films).<br /><br />I could direct your attention to <a href="http://screenville.blogspot.com/2008/03/responsibilities-of-criticism-in-nyc.html" rel="nofollow">this</aHarryTuttlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10721542203087536185noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16398571.post-91411383849650908752010-04-21T22:32:36.455+02:002010-04-21T22:32:36.455+02:00when I asked before for a definition resistance, I...when I asked before for a definition resistance, I meant: what <i>practices</i> should I engage in to counter Hollywood hegemony?David McDougallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11020826602374694194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16398571.post-90573562877068576542010-04-21T21:50:42.072+02:002010-04-21T21:50:42.072+02:00Now you're saying that critics build the alter...Now you're saying that critics build the alternative cinemas? I thought artists did that. <br />And their means of production/distribution is beyond what critics can offer with reviews/voice platform...<br /><br />Just to be clear : Godard is talking about something else, I'm just replacing "workers" by "artists" in his speech. He wants to give a voice to the Real HarryTuttlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10721542203087536185noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16398571.post-72919734701214141802010-04-21T20:59:24.588+02:002010-04-21T20:59:24.588+02:00a war of position should always be fought on 2 fro...a war of position should always be fought on 2 fronts...David McDougallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11020826602374694194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16398571.post-70251943274618607132010-04-21T20:37:55.148+02:002010-04-21T20:37:55.148+02:00a propos of Godard: the alternative cinemas, and t...a propos of Godard: the alternative cinemas, and their associated distribution and production mechanisms, might be, or turn into, a space in which the silenced are allowed to speak. which is not to say it always succeeds, but that it someday might. if there is any cinema that allows us to "speak in our own name," the only way Godard thinks we can authentically embrace a political cinemaDavid McDougallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11020826602374694194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16398571.post-63968465035924106272010-04-21T18:46:57.359+02:002010-04-21T18:46:57.359+02:00what alternate structures would you build?what alternate structures would you build?HarryTuttlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10721542203087536185noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16398571.post-12581042130099620172010-04-21T18:27:27.644+02:002010-04-21T18:27:27.644+02:002 things, briefly:
'opposition'/'resi...2 things, briefly:<br /><br />'opposition'/'resistance' can also be composed of building alternate structures<br /><br />each of us, in recognizing the small part we can play in any broader transformation, is tasked with some small part of that transformation. no man builds a house, or a city, or a new way of life alone. <br /><br />[to the latter point, I might quote twist AdrianDavid McDougallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11020826602374694194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16398571.post-16856484071690056742010-04-21T09:49:19.149+02:002010-04-21T09:49:19.149+02:00Like I first replied, it's not the help you gi...Like I first replied, it's not the help you give to a handful of auteurs that is bad in itself, it's what the exclusive focus on that action (at the exclusion of everything else you could do to help) implies for the global balance. <br />It's not because you're doing one little good thing, here and now, that it is the right thing, the most efficient thing to do to achieve a long HarryTuttlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10721542203087536185noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16398571.post-33082378736608665392010-04-21T09:33:52.660+02:002010-04-21T09:33:52.660+02:00diagnosis. // prognosis? // praxis??
[I'm not...diagnosis. // prognosis? // praxis??<br /><br />[I'm not sure I agree that championing lesser-known films is as complicit with hegemony as you imply. I look forward to your definition of resistance.]David McDougallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11020826602374694194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16398571.post-43407738984080120952010-04-21T08:15:08.095+02:002010-04-21T08:15:08.095+02:00Hollywood
"Every day to earn my daily bread...Hollywood <br /><br />"Every day to earn my daily bread<br />I go to the market where lies are bought.... <br />Hopefully (bought) I take up my place among the sellers."<br />Bertholt Brecht (from <i>Poems in Exile</i>, 1942)HarryTuttlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10721542203087536185noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16398571.post-47290853160946024652010-04-21T08:11:55.135+02:002010-04-21T08:11:55.135+02:00Surrendering half-way through is no resistance. H...Surrendering half-way through is no resistance. Hollywood is playing a game of attrition purposefully to wear out all opposition. Stepping "out the cycle" helps the invisible hand of the market to sweep out independent cinema. Because the big studios can survive the long run, unlike isolated auteurs. Hollywood doesn't try to win the artistic upper hand, they just wait for the HarryTuttlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10721542203087536185noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16398571.post-53453701335736231162010-04-20T09:35:44.611+02:002010-04-20T09:35:44.611+02:00cherry-picking your favourites is not the lazy par...cherry-picking your favourites is not the lazy part; turning a blind eye on the damages caused by the hegemony (and expecting others to deal with it for you) is.<br />To each its own definition of resistance...HarryTuttlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10721542203087536185noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16398571.post-86178047484991993162010-04-19T18:58:00.687+02:002010-04-19T18:58:00.687+02:00there's so much open land... one needs to choo...there's so much open land... one needs to choose a place a burrow.David McDougallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11020826602374694194noreply@blogger.com