“If you discover the truth, if you reveal the truth,
then you will suffer.”
One of the pillars of exercising thought control has always been to control a nation’s culture. Given the potential threat of free expression, destroying its foundation or effectively beguiling its representatives are two consequences we have seen in the past, and sadly still witness in the present. From the concept of the Aryan race finding its way into the works of Leni Riefenstahl to the arrests of artists like Liu Xiaobo or Ai Weiwei in China, controlling a culture’s output is a reliable symptom of a repressive system erasing any form of dissent.
Certainly, one of those events was the shutdown of the Beijing Independent Festival in 2014. Because the festival founded by art critic Lia Xianting planned on screening Hu Jie’s documentary “Spark” (which was supposed to be shown in an unfinished cut...
then you will suffer.”
One of the pillars of exercising thought control has always been to control a nation’s culture. Given the potential threat of free expression, destroying its foundation or effectively beguiling its representatives are two consequences we have seen in the past, and sadly still witness in the present. From the concept of the Aryan race finding its way into the works of Leni Riefenstahl to the arrests of artists like Liu Xiaobo or Ai Weiwei in China, controlling a culture’s output is a reliable symptom of a repressive system erasing any form of dissent.
Certainly, one of those events was the shutdown of the Beijing Independent Festival in 2014. Because the festival founded by art critic Lia Xianting planned on screening Hu Jie’s documentary “Spark” (which was supposed to be shown in an unfinished cut...
- 5/14/2019
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
“Why did you feel it’s so urgent?”
“It’s because the dead couldn’t talk.”
When we think of the history of our home countries, we think of various sources and records telling present and future generations the facts about the past. In order to be able to progress a society, this is one of the basic believes when it comes to keeping those stories, files and tapes alive by making them available to the public. Since we have arrived in an age which has coined the phrase “fake news” to label those untrustworthy reporting the facts or which put an event or a statement in a historcial context as a warning, this awareness of the truth is perhaps more important than it has ever been.
“Spark” is available from Icarus Films
However, keeping track of the past is challenging in many ways. Especially if ideology and backwardness interfere...
“It’s because the dead couldn’t talk.”
When we think of the history of our home countries, we think of various sources and records telling present and future generations the facts about the past. In order to be able to progress a society, this is one of the basic believes when it comes to keeping those stories, files and tapes alive by making them available to the public. Since we have arrived in an age which has coined the phrase “fake news” to label those untrustworthy reporting the facts or which put an event or a statement in a historcial context as a warning, this awareness of the truth is perhaps more important than it has ever been.
“Spark” is available from Icarus Films
However, keeping track of the past is challenging in many ways. Especially if ideology and backwardness interfere...
- 5/12/2019
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
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