position:film director

ALLIANCEOF MOTHERNATURE’SGUARDIANS
▻http://planeteamazone.org/documents/AGMN/AMNG-2017_EN_web.pdf

What is the Alliance of Mother Nature’s Guardians ?
The Alliance of Mother Nature’s Guardians in action
The founders of the Alliance of Mother Nature’s Guardians
The Constitution of the Alliance of Mother Nature’s Guardians: 17 proposals for the planet and future generations

Planète Amazone - ONG de défense des peuples autochtones
▻http://planeteamazone.org

Gert Peter Bruch | IUCN évènement
▻https://www.70uicn.fr/en/gert-peter-bruch
▻https://www.70uicn.fr/sites/default/files/personnes/Gert%20Peter%20Bruch%20site%20internet.JPG

Committed since 1989 next to indigenous peoples of the Amazon, Gert-Peter Bruch is founder of the NGO “Planet Amazon”, which ensures the respect of their rights and the recognition of those of nature. To this end, he organized numerous field missions and awareness campaigns, including three international tours of Cacique Raoni Metuktire, emblematic defender of the Amazon rainforest.
Gert-Peter Bruch is also a film director and co-founder and member of the Executive Committee of the “Alliance of Guardians of Mother Nature”, an international movement of proposals and actions to fight against global warming and preserve living conditions viable for future generations.

#environnement #écologie #ngo #activisme

The push to name more European streets after women

Nearly all roads are named after men. Campaigners want to change that.

SOME CITIES are symbolised by their monuments, such as the Eiffel Tower, the Colosseum and the Brandenburg Gate. But streets can do the job, too. Many are named after national heroes—nearly all of them male.

Dozens of streets in Hungary are named after Petofi Sandor, the national poet. A visitor to any Italian city is likely to tread on Via Dante, Mazzini, Garibaldi or Verdi. Women remain conspicuously absent, apart from a certain Middle Easterner famed for her virginity. Even so, tens of lesser-known gents come ahead of Jesus’s mother. In Paris, 31% of streets are named after men, just 2.6% after women.

The invisibility of women in Europe’s street names is mainly a historical hangover. This summer, residents of Brussels had the chance to name 28 new streets. None are named after individual men—the new Place des Grands Hommes instead gives them collective recognition. Two streets will be named after women: a doctor, Isala van Diest, and a film director, Chantal Akerman. But the achievements of these ladies appears on a par with local fondness for delicacies like kriek (cherry beer) and speculoos (gingerbread biscuits), which will also give their name to new streets. The ingenious naming of Ceci n’est pas une rue (“This is not a street”) will pay homage to the Belgian surrealist artist René Magritte—a deserving choice, but some may rue the missed opportunity to highlight other worthy women.

Meanwhile, vigilante sign-stickers from Paris to Tbilisi are taking matters into their own hands. A Parisian group has unofficially renamed the Pont au Change after the entertainer and resistance fighter Josephine Baker; and the Boulevard du Palais after the 18th-century philosopher Emilie du Châtelet. Beyoncé Boulevard appeared in place of Rokin Boulevard in Amsterdam in August. Some local governments have joined the cause. La-Ville-aux-Dames, a town in France, has aptly named most of its roads after women. Brussels and a town in Burgundy have officially paid respect to Jo Cox, a British MP who was murdered in 2016 by a pro-Brexit conspiracy theorist. More such recognition would surely improve cities’ street cred.

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Plus de 140 artistes (dont une vingtaine de français) de 18 pays, dont des participants à l’Eurovision signent une lettre appelant au boycott de l’Eurovision 2019 si elle a lieu en israel:

Eurovision, ne blanchissez pas l’occupation militaire et les violations des droits humains par Israël
The Guardian, le 7 septembre 2018
▻https://www.bdsfrance.org/plus-de-140-artistes-signent-une-lettre-appelant-au-boycott-de-leurovisio

Boycott Eurovision Song Contest hosted by Israel
The Guardian, le 7 septembre 2018
▻https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/sep/07/boycott-eurovision-song-contest-hosted-by-israel

L-FRESH The LION, musician, Eurovision 2018 national judge (Australia)
Helen Razer, broadcaster, writer (Australia)
Candy Bowers, actor, writer, theatre director (Australia)
Blak Douglas, artist (Australia)
Nick Seymour, musician, producer (Australia)
DAAN, musician, songwriter (Belgium)
Daan Hugaert, actor (Belgium)
Alain Platel, choreographer, theatre director (Belgium)
Marijke Pinoy, actor (Belgium)
Code Rouge, band (Belgium)
DJ Murdock, DJ (Belgium)
Helmut Lotti, singer (Belgium)
Raymond Van het Groenewoud, musician (Belgium)
Stef Kamil Carlens, musician, composer (Belgium)
Charles Ducal, poet, writer (Belgium)
Fikry El Azzouzi, novelist, playwright (Belgium)
Erik Vlaminck, novelist, playwright (Belgium)
Rachida Lamrabet, writer (Belgium)
Slongs Dievanongs, musician (Belgium)
Chokri Ben Chikha, actor, theatre director (Belgium)
Yann Martel, novelist (Canada)
Karina Willumsen, musician, composer (Denmark)
Kirsten Thorup, novelist, poet (Denmark)
Arne Würgler, musician (Denmark)
Jesper Christensen, actor (Denmark)
Tove Bornhoeft, actor, theatre director (Denmark)
Anne Marie Helger, actor (Denmark)
Tina Enghoff, visual artist (Denmark)
Nassim Al Dogom, musician (Denmark)
Patchanka, band (Denmark)
Raske Penge, songwriter, singer (Denmark)
Oktoberkoret, choir (Denmark)
Nils Vest, film director (Denmark)
Britta Lillesoe, actor (Denmark)
Kaija Kärkinen, singer, Eurovision 1991 finalist (Finland)
Kyösti Laihi, musician, Eurovision 1988 finalist (Finland)
Kimmo Pohjonen, musician (Finland)
Paleface, musician (Finland)
Manuela Bosco, actor, novelist, artist (Finland)
Noora Dadu, actor (Finland)
Pirjo Honkasalo, film-maker (Finland)
Ria Kataja, actor (Finland)
Tommi Korpela, actor (Finland)
Krista Kosonen, actor (Finland)
Elsa Saisio, actor (Finland)
Martti Suosalo, actor, singer (Finland)
Virpi Suutari, film director (Finland)
Aki Kaurismäki, film director, screenwriter (Finland)
Pekka Strang, actor, artistic director (Finland)
HK, singer (France)
Dominique Grange, singer (France)
Imhotep, DJ, producer (France)
Francesca Solleville, singer (France)
Elli Medeiros, singer, actor (France)
Mouss & Hakim, band (France)
Alain Guiraudie, film director, screenwriter (France)
Tardi, comics artist (France)
Gérard Mordillat, novelist, filmmaker (France)
Eyal Sivan, film-maker (France)
Rémo Gary, singer (France)
Dominique Delahaye, novelist, musician (France)
Philippe Delaigue, author, theatre director (France)
Michel Kemper, online newspaper editor-in-chief (France)
Michèle Bernard, singer-songwriter (France)
Gérard Morel, theatre actor, director, singer (France)
Daði Freyr, musician, Eurovision 2017 national selection finalist (Iceland)
Hildur Kristín Stefánsdóttir, musician, Eurovision 2017 national selection finalist (Iceland)
Mike Murphy, broadcaster, eight-time Eurovision commentator (Ireland)
Mary Black, singer (Ireland)
Christy Moore, singer, musician (Ireland)
Charlie McGettigan, musician, songwriter, Eurovision 1994 winner (Ireland)
Mary Coughlan, singer (Ireland)
Luka Bloom, singer (Ireland)
Robert Ballagh, artist, Riverdance set designer (Ireland)
Aviad Albert, musician (Israel)
Michal Sapir, musician, writer (Israel)
Ohal Grietzer, musician (Israel)
Yonatan Shapira, musician (Israel)
Danielle Ravitzki, musician, visual artist (Israel)
David Opp, artist (Israel)
Assalti Frontali, band (Italy)
Radiodervish, band (Italy)
Moni Ovadia, actor, singer, playwright (Italy)
Vauro, journalist, cartoonist (Italy)
Pinko Tomažič Partisan Choir, choir (Italy)
Jorit, street artist (Italy)
Marthe Valle, singer (Norway)
Mari Boine, musician, composer (Norway)
Aslak Heika Hætta Bjørn, singer (Norway)
Nils Petter Molvær, musician, composer (Norway)
Moddi, singer (Norway)
Jørn Simen Øverli, singer (Norway)
Nosizwe, musician, actor (Norway)
Bugge Wesseltoft, musician, composer (Norway)
Lars Klevstrand, musician, composer, actor (Norway)
Trond Ingebretsen, musician (Norway)
José Mário Branco, musician, composer (Portugal)
Francisco Fanhais, singer (Portugal)
Tiago Rodrigues, artistic director, Portuguese national theatre (Portugal)
Patrícia Portela, playwright, author (Portugal)
Chullage, musician (Portugal)
António Pedro Vasconcelos, film director (Portugal)
José Luis Peixoto, novelist (Portugal)
N’toko, musician (Slovenia)
ŽPZ Kombinat, choir (Slovenia)
Lluís Llach, composer, singer-songwriter (Spanish state)
Marinah, singer (Spanish state)
Riot Propaganda, band (Spanish state)
Fermin Muguruza, musician (Spanish state)
Kase.O, musician (Spanish state)
Soweto, band (Spanish state)
Itaca Band, band (Spanish state)
Tremenda Jauría, band (Spanish state)
Teresa Aranguren, journalist (Spanish state)
Julio Perez del Campo, film director (Spanish state)
Nicky Triphook, singer (Spanish state)
Pau Alabajos, singer-songwriter (Spanish state)
Mafalda, band (Spanish state)
Zoo, band (Spanish state)
Smoking Souls, band (Spanish state)
Olof Dreijer, DJ, producer (Sweden)
Karin Dreijer, singer, producer (Sweden)
Dror Feiler, musician, composer (Sweden)
Michel Bühler, singer, playwright, novelist (Switzerland)
Wolf Alice, band (UK)
Carmen Callil, publisher, writer (UK)
Julie Christie, actor (UK)
Caryl Churchill, playwright (UK)
Brian Eno, composer, producer (UK)
AL Kennedy, writer (UK)
Peter Kosminsky, writer, film director (UK)
Paul Laverty, scriptwriter (UK)
Mike Leigh, writer, film and theatre director (UK)
Ken Loach, film director (UK)
Alexei Sayle, writer, comedian (UK)
Roger Waters, musician (UK)
Penny Woolcock, film-maker, opera director (UK)
Leon Rosselson, songwriter (UK)
Sabrina Mahfouz, writer, poet (UK)
Eve Ensler, playwright (US)
Alia Shawkat, actor (US)

#Palestine #BDS #Boycott_culturel #Eurovision

Why Do So Many Scientists Want to be Filmmakers? - Issue 58: Self
▻http://nautil.us/issue/58/self/why-do-so-many-scientists-want-to-be-filmmakers

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For the past five years, Nautilus has asked scientists what they would be if they weren’t a scientist. I can now report what, above all, they want to be. “Film director,” says physicist David Deutsch. “A filmmaker,” says neuroscientist Antonio Damasio. “I would make movies,” says astronomer Lisa Kaltenegger. It’s easy to see why. Movies were often the first experiences that sparked scientists’ curiosity about the world. “I was so into cinema when I was younger,” says astrophysicist Daniel Wolf Savin. “I would see 80 to 100 movies a year.” Confronting mysteries in a fantasy world became a romantic quest to solve them in the real one. Lisa KalteneggerLindaBG / Wikipedia We include the question, “What would be you be if you weren’t a scientist,” in our regular “Ingenious” interviews to give readers a (...)

Artists attack Trump over Jerusalem move
Tunde Adebimpe Musician
Nick Broomfiel Film director
Caryl Churchill Playwright
Julie Christie Actor
Molly Crabapple Writer and artist
Angela Davis Writer
Brian Eno Musician
Eve Ensler Playwright
Peter Gabriel Musician
Mona Hatoum Visual artist
Aki Kaurismaki Film director
AL Kennedy Writer
Hari Kunzru Writer
Mike Leigh Writer, director
Ken Loach Film director
Liz Lochhead Poet, playwright
Emel Mathlouthi Musician
Thurston Moore Musician
Maxine Peake Actor
Michael Rosen Poet
Mark Ruffalo Actor
James Schamus Screenwriter, producer, director
Gillian Slovo Writer
Ahdaf Soueif Writer
Juliet Stevenson Actor
Tilda Swinton Actor
Marina Warner Writer
Roger Waters Musician
Vivienne Westwood Fashion designer
Robert Wyatt Musician
The Guardian, le 11 décembre 2017
▻https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/11/artists-attack-trump-over-jerusalem-move

Autres signatures ici:
▻https://artistsletterontrumpandjerusalem.tumblr.com

#Palestine #Jérusalem #Artistes

Le 1er film d’animation saoudien, consacré à Bilal (compagnon du Prophète), au Festival de Cannes ▻http://saudigazette.com.sa/life/saudi-animated-movie-bilal-screened-cannes

Film enthusiasts look forward to the Cannes Film Festival every May and this year’s participation of the long-awaited animation movie “Bilal” will be of interest and pride for filmmakers and animation movies admirers in the Middle East and beyond.

“Bilal” the epic and inspiring movie aroused interest after the producer and film director Ayman Tariq Jamal revealed his innovative idea of ​​an animation movie motivated by the story of a real inspirational hero who appeals to all generations, a different path from most animated movies that rely on fictional heroes. The film offers lessons on humanity, timeless faith, hope and self-discovery in a story inspired by the life of the great Bilal Ibn Rabah, a companion of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). A slave who converted Islam, Bilal lived in the Arabian Peninsula and faced great injustice and tyranny but then became the most prominent figure in Islamic history to call for justice and equality.

New South African feature ‘Endless River’ makes #Film history
▻http://africasacountry.com/2015/07/new-south-african-feature-endless-river-makes-film-history

South African film director and auteur Oliver Hermanus has made film history this week and his cell phone is blowing up. “Yesterday was a hard day for my phone,” he.....

#CULTURE_PAGE #South_Africa

Pétition au Festival du Film de Locarno (en anglais, mais la liste des signataires est impressionnante)

Filmmakers to Locarno Film Festival: Don’t Give Israeli Apartheid a Carte Blanche
▻http://www.pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=2702

It has come to our attention that the Locarno Film Festival has chosen to place Israel as the center of this year’s festival in its “Carte Blanche” initiative, in cooperation with the Israeli Film Fund. This fund is an Israeli government-funded agency which receives support from the Israel Film Council, the government appointed film funding advisory body, as well as support from the Film unit at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs whose aim is to “promote Israeli films abroad with the support of the cultural attachés in the Israeli embassies throughout the world.”

We, the undersigned filmmakers and industry professionals, would like to express our deep concern with the fact that the Locarno festival is choosing to partner with the Israel Film Fund and Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, despite the fact that Israel has not just continued, but intensified its decades-old occupation, colonization, and ethnic cleansing against the Palestinian people.

We are particularly disturbed about the timing of this Locarno Film Festival decision to promote Israel, coming on the heels of Israel’s latest massacre in Gaza in the summer of 2014, where more than two thousand Palestinians were killed, including more than five hundred children. Locarno’s decision also follows the election of the most racist, far-right government in Israel’s history.

Given the current belligerence exhibited by Israel in its ongoing brutal attacks on Palestinian civilians and infrastructure, justified by the same Ministry of Foreign Affairs that you have chosen to be a partner of the festival, we demand that the festival organizers reconsider their relationship to the government of Israel, and withdraw their partnership with the Israel Film Fund, Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs and all other official Israeli entities. If the idea is to support individual Israeli filmmakers or screen Israeli films, there are many ways to do so without accepting funding or other forms of support from the Israeli state and government organizations.

We make this demand in consideration of the Palestinian filmmakers who have lost their lives or their loved ones this year due to Israel’s military attacks. We do so in consideration of the many cultural centers, arts institutions and universities targeted by Israeli bombs and missiles. We do so because we are in solidarity with those who are under siege. Under these circumstances, the actions of the State of Israel cannot be treated as normal. We do so because some of us are under siege, clinging on to our art and our humanity and contributing to our collective struggle for freedom, justice and equality.

We hope that our colleagues and friends at the Locarno Film Festival will stand with us. We hope you will recognize the direness of the present situation, and that you will choose to stand for human dignity in the face of barbarity and injustice perpetrated against any and all peoples.

It is well worth revisiting the timeless words of the German philosopher, Walter Benjamin, from his Theses on the Philosophy of History:

“The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the ’state of emergency’ in which we live is not the exception but the rule. We must attain to a conception of history that is in keeping with this insight. Then we shall clearly realize that it is our task to bring about a real state of emergency, and this will improve our position in the struggle against Fascism. One reason why Fascism has a chance is that in the name of progress its opponents treat it as a historical norm. The current amazement that the things we are experiencing are ’still’ possible in the twentieth century is not philosophical. This amazement is not the beginning of knowledge - unless it is the knowledge that the view of history which gives rise to it is untenable.”

Sincerely,

Annemarie Jacir, Filmmaker, Palestine
Elia Suleiman, Filmmaker, France
Ken Loach, Director, UK
Mira Nair, Director, India/Uganda
Hany Abu-Assad, Director, Palestine
Mohammad Bakri, Actor, Palestine
Saleh Bakri, Actor, Palestine
Simone Bitton, Film Director, France
Joslyn Barnes, Producer, USA
Richard Horowitz, Composer & Producer, USA
Irit Neidhardt, Distributor & Co-Producer & Curator, Germany
Eyal Sivan, Filmmaker & Scholar, France/Israel
Rebecca O’Brien, Film Producer, UK
Walter Bernstein, Screenwriter, USA
Yasmine Hamdan, Singer, Lebanon/France
Jasmila Zbanic, Filmmaker, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Paul Laverty, Screenwriter, UK
Ossama Bawardi, Producer, Palestine
Karine Guignard, Actress & Hip Hop Artist, Switzerland
Hazem Berrabah, DOP, Tunisia
Abdel Salam Shehada, Filmmaker, Gaza/Palestine
Khaled Abol Naga, Actor & Producer & Director, Egypt
Marie-Pierre Macia, Producer, France
Ula Tabari, Filmmaker & Actress, France
Helene Louvart, Cinematographer, France
Kamran Rastegar, Music Composer, USA
Georgina Paget, Producer, UK
Zeina Durra, Filmmaker, UK
Rasha Salti, Film Programmer, Lebanon
Monica Maurer, Filmmaker & Journalist, Germany/Italy
Tala Hadid, Writer & Director, Morocco
John Greyson, Filmmaker, Canada
Hala Lotfy, Filmmaker, Egypt
Nicolas Wadimoff, Filmmaker & Producer, Switzerland
Dictynna Hood, Director, UK
Mai Masri, Filmmaker, Palestine
George Azar, Documentary Filmmaker, USA
Cat Villiers, Producer, UK
Mahdi Fleifel, Director, Amsterdam
Khalid Abdalla, Actor & Producer, Egypt/UK
Sally El Hosaini, Filmmaker, UK
Ounouri Damien, Director, Algeria
Enas Al Muthafar, Director, Palestine
Nicole Ballivian, Screenwriter & Director, USA
Najwa Najjar, Film Director, Palestine
Yahya Barakat, Film Director, Palestine
Nahed Awwad, Film Director, Palestine
Patrick Campbell, Producer, UK
Samir, Director & Producer, Switzerland
Alain Bottarelli, Producer, Switzerland
Palmyre Badinier, Producer, France
Stina Werenfels, Director, Switzerland
Frederic Choffat, Filmmaker, Switzerland
Saed Andoni, Producer, Palestine
Kamal Jafari, Filmmaker, Palestine
Nicholas Blincoe, Screenwriter, UK
George Khleifi, Filmmaker, Palestine
Dima Abu Ghoush, Filmmaker, Palestine
Najwa Mubarki, Casting Director, Palestine
Salim Abu Jabal, Filmmaker, Syria/Palestine
Majdi El-Omari, Filmmaker, Canada/Palestine
Jenny Morgan, Filmmaker, UK
Ramzi Maqdisi, Actor & Filmmaker, Palestine
Raed Helou, Filmmaker, Palestine
Dahna Abourahme, Filmmaker, Lebanon
Georgina Asfour, Filmmaker & Script Supervisor, Palestine
Azza El-Hassan, Filmmaker, Palestine
Rana Kazkaz, Filmmaker, USA/Syria
Mary Ellen Davis, Director, Canada
Norma Marcos, Filmmaker, Palestine/France
Hatem Alsharif, Writer, Jordan
Narimane Mari, Director & Producer, Algeria
Rashid Masharawi​, Director & Producer, Palestine
Omar Robert Hamilton, Writer & Director, Egypt
Anand Patwardhan, Filmmaker, India
Susan Youssef, Filmmaker, Lebanon
Osama Abed, Screenwriter & Director, Palestine
Sylvain L’Esperance, Filmmaker, Canada
Rama Mari, Filmmaker, Palestine
Riyad Deis, Filmmaker, Palestine
Buthina Canaan khoury, Filmmaker, Palestine
Nasri Hajjaj, Writer & Filmmaker, Palestine
Jumana Manna, Artist, Palestine
Lyana Saleh, Director & Producer, France
Martin Duckworth, Filmmaker, Canada
Brett Story, Filmmaker, Canada
Hanna Atallah, Filmmaker & Producer, Palestine
Dr. Ezzaldeen Shalh, Film Critic, Palestine
Shannon Walsh, Filmmaker, Hong Kong/Canada
Nora Alsharif, Director, Jordan
Zain Duraie, Filmmaker, Jordan
Akram Safadi, Filmmaker , Palestine
Hicham Kayed, Filmmaker, Lebanon
Suha Arraf, Filmmaker, Palestine
Pacho Velez, Filmmaker, USA
Linda Mutawi, Producer, Jordan/Sweden
Khadijeh Habashneh Abu Ali, Filmmaker, Jordan
May Odeh, Director & Producer, Palestine
Liana Badr, Author & Filmmaker, Palestine
Sophia Al-Maria, Screenwriter, UK
Hanan Abdalla, Documentary Filmmaker, Egypt/UK
Maher Abi Samra, Filmmaker, France
Amber Fares, Filmmaker, Canada/Palestine
Thaer Alsahli, Director & Writer, Netherlands
Ashraf Mashharawi, Filmmaker, Palestine
Alisa Lebow, Filmmaker & Scholar, UK
Maysoon Pachachi, Filmmaker, UK/Iraq
Guy Sherwin, Filmmaker, UK
Haim Bresheeth, Filmmaker, UK
George Costigan, Actor, UK
John Smith, Filmmaker, UK
Miranda Pennell, Filmmaker, UK
Jill Daniels, Filmmaker, UK
Samir Abdallah, Filmmaker, Egypt/France
Claus Josten, Filmmaker, Germany
Ruba Blal Asfour, Actress, Palestine
Fenia Cossovitsa Producer, Greece
Alaa Al Ali, Multimedia Artist, Sweden
Yaser Fares, Artist & Filmmaker, Germany
Tarazan Nasser, Filmmaker, Gaza/Palestine Arab Nasser, Filmmaker, Gaza/Palestine
Larissa Sansour, Artist, UK
Mahmoud Al Massad, Writer & Director, Jordan
Dima Hamdallah, Writer & Producer, Jordan
Sherif Elbendary, Filmmaker, Egypt
Hamada Atallah, Costume Designer, Palestine
Khaled Jarrar, Filmmaker & Artist, Palestine
George Hencken, Filmmaker, London
Eyad Hourani, Actor, Palestine
Ridha Tlili, Filmmaker, Tunisia
Amer Shomali, Filmmaker, Palestine
Marco Pasquini, Documentary Filmmaker & Cinematographer, Italy
Kassem Hawal, Filmmaker & Writer, Iraq
Khalo Matabane, Filmmaker, South Africa
Yahya Alabdallah, Filmmaker, Jordan
Sabah Haider, Filmmaker, Canada/Lebanon
Sean Jacobs, Film Faculty, USA/South Africa
Rashid Abdelhamid, Producer, Palestine
Meriem Varone, Script Consultant, France
Firas Khoury, Director, Palestine
Leila Sansour, Film Director & Producer, UK/Palestine
Hakim Noury, Filmmaker, Morocco
Farida Benlyazid, Filmmaker, Morocco Khalil Benkirane, Filmmaker, Qatar

#Palestine #BDS #Boycott_Culturel #Cinema #Festival #Locarno

▶ Deeyah Khan and Hina Jilani at UN Human Rights Council - YouTube
▻http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnAL5dvvS34#t=139

Publiée le 13 mars 2014

Film director Deeyah Khan speaks to Hina Jilani at UN Human Rights Council March 2014 about the role of art and artists in civil society.

By Deeyah Khan

▻http://artsfreedom.org/?p=7002

Art is a powerful form of communication which has a unique ability to transcend cultural and linguistic boundaries, an exploration of what it means to be human. Art can be brash or sublime, basic or intricate, and is one of the first forms of human expression and which remains rooted in the creative potential for innovation and transformation. It has an extraordinary capacity to express resistance and rebellion; protest and hope. It can start conversations; it can bring subjects into the public sphere, expose abuses and to point towards new worlds: to touch people in a deeper and more affecting way than academic and political discourse, to move us to tears, to laughter and to action. There is a reason why artists, intellectuals and women are usually the first targets of oppressive regimes, of fundamentalist groups and of reactionaries of all stripes, who cannot bear any positions that threaten their perceived monopoly on truth or which expose their corruption and cruelty.

So, where art is transgressive, it is decried as immoral, seditious or contrary to religious rules. Artists are silenced by many means, from harassment to imprisonment, from censorship to accusations of blasphemy; which can itself be a death sentence. This precious human resource is formed from deep continuities with our artistic traditions with the fertile exploration of new forms to make up the glorious potential of creativity: surely one of the pinnacles of human achievement and experience. The English radical poet Shelley considered poets to be the unacknowledged legislators of the world: the future is in the present as the plant lies in the seed, he said; and art has the potential to realise this future, a future of equality, diversity and unity. In this sense, artists should be considered providing a vital, but under-appreciated contribution to the functioning of civil society.

#musique #femmes #censure #onu

From the Archives: #Alain_Resnais’s #FILM on “African Art” (Statues Also Die, 1953)
▻http://africasacountry.com/from-the-archives-alain-resnaiss-film-on-african-art-statues-also-d

French film director Alain Resnais est mort. His career spanned six decades (born in 1922, his last film was premiered in Berlin earlier this year), and has been well documented. His body of work is enormous, but there’s one of his films that I want to highlight here–embedding it below. At a young age, in […]

#HISTORY #Chris_Marker #Les_statues_meurent_aussi #Statues_Also_Die

Berlin film festival to honor director who backs Israel boycott -
Haaretz, By JTA | Feb. 13, 2014 |

▻http://www.haaretz.com/culture/arts-leisure/1.574042

A film director who backs boycotting Israeli artists is to receive the highest honorary award at the International Film Festival in Berlin.

Jewish leaders in Germany have reacted with dismay to the decision to award an honorary Golden Bear to Ken Loach, British director of such films as “My Name Is Joe” (1998) and “Bread And Roses” (2000). He is set to receive the award on Thursday.

“Ken Loach uses his prominence to call for a cultural boycott of Israel, singling out the only democracy in the Middle East where there is complete freedom of expression. It is a disgrace that a prominent German film festival panders to a film producer who has distinguished himself through bigotry and the denial of the right to existence of Israel,” Deidre Berger, head of the Berlin office of the American Jewish Committees, said. ”It is not possible to judge his work on the basis of art alone, as he himself judges the work of others solely on the basis of nationality.”

Festival director Dieter Kosslick said in a statement on the festival’s website that he admires Loach for his “profound interest in people and their individual fates, as well as his critical commitment to society.”

According to the online magazine Haolam.de, Loach called for a boycott of the Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2009 after he learned that Israeli filmmaker Tali Shalom Ezer had been invited, and that the Israeli government had helped finance her trip. Also in 2009, he canceled plans to attend the Melbourne International Film Festival after learning that the Israeli government had paid for the flight of animation artist Tatia Rosenthal.

Alawite filmmaker assassinated in Damascus
►http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iN3gWB5P14GMBhlLhNFYmdzg4O2A?docId=CNG.4ae5b8c34a9eeaaf73df397a93eba09

An Alawite film director was assassinated near his home on the outskirts of Damascus, Syria’s General Cinema Institute said on Tuesday.

“Treacherous hands assassinated” Bassam Mohieddin on Sunday, the institute said in a statement, adding the killing took place in Jdaidet Artuz, scene of recent clashes between troops and rebels.

Israel is new South Africa as boycott calls increase - #bds
►http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/israel-is-new-south-africa-as-boycott-calls-increase-7813538.html#dis

Calls for a boycott are supported by hundreds of artists around the world, from the film director Ken Loach to former Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters and the author Alice Walker. Artists such as Carlos Santana and Elvis Costello have cancelled shows after pressure from campaigners in recent years; Coldplay, U2 and Bruce Springsteen have declined invitations to play in Israel without supporting the boycott publicly. Paul McCartney, Elton John, Rihanna and Leonard Cohen are among those to have ignored calls not to appear there.

juan gatti : the natural sciences
►http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/10/view/18738/juan-gatti-the-natural-sciences.html

http://www.designboom.com/weblog/images/images_2/bora/adg_juangatti/gatti02.jpg

the argentinean, multi-talented juan gatti is generally known as a commercial photographer and graphic designer,
often collaborating with film director pedro almodovar. his less known work includes anatomy drawings of human body
in combination with the taxonomy of plans and of exotic animals.

Steven Spielberg censored in Lebanon ? - BlogPost - The Washington Post
►http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/steven-spielberg-censored-in-lebanon/2011/11/09/gIQAmQ7j5M_blog.html

Film director Steven Spielberg’s name has been covered up on posters advertising the new Tintin film at a cinema in Lebanon, reports Lebanese site Blog Baladi. The blogger took the following photo at Cinema City in Beirut:

Last year, a U.S. embassy memo released by WikiLeaks revealed that Spielberg had been blacklisted by the Arab League’s Central Boycott Office in 2006 after making a $1 million donation to Israel during the conflict with Lebanon. Representatives from 14 Arab states voted to ban all films related to Spielberg or his Righteous Persons Foundation.

Mais vraiment, qu’est-ce qu’ils espèrent : il faudrait que Spielberg donne 1 million de dollars « à Israël » pendant que ce pays est en train de raser toutes les infrastructures du Liban et de massacrer sa population civile, et que tout le monde au Liban trouve super-sympa de continuer à payer pour aller voir ses films ?

Le coup du million de dollars à Israël par Spielberg en 2006, j’étais passé à côté... #cablegate

07DAMASCUS409, ARAB LEAGUE BOYCOTT MEETING : SPIELBERG DESIGNATED - 30 avril 2007
►http://wikileaks.org/cable/2007/04/07DAMASCUS409.html#

The one addition mentioned was film director Steven Spielberg, who was singled out for his USD one million donation to Israel last year during the summer conflict in Lebanon, according to Ajami. The committee banned all films and other products related to Spielberg or his Righteous Persons Foundation, Ajami said. Generic enforcement guidelines given to ALBO members include the banning of DVD imports and airing of Spielberg,s films.

Ken Loach: ’the ruling class are cracking the whip (The Guardian)
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/aug/28/ken-loach-class-riots-interview

The leftwing film director talks about the riots, his early work on television and the documentary he made for Save the Children 40 years ago that is about to be screened for the first time (...)

Ken Loach : ’the ruling class are cracking the whip’
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/aug/28/ken-loach-class-riots-interview

The leftwing film director talks about the riots, his early work on television and the documentary he made for Save the Children 40 years that is about to be screened for the first time

Il est parfois de bon ton de critiquer #ken_loach pour son manichéisme ou sa naïveté. J’y vois plutôt une forme d’intégrité.

What happens when you try to leave the Church of Scientology? (The Guardian)
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/23/try-to-leave-church-scientology-lawrence-wright?CMP=twt_gu

On 19 August 2009, Tommy Davis, the chief spokesperson for the Church of Scientology International, received a letter from the film director and screenwriter Paul Haggis. “For 10 months now I have been writing to ask you to make a public statement denouncing the actions of the Church of Scientology of San Diego,” Haggis wrote. Before the 2008 elections, a staff member at Scientology’s San Diego church had signed its name to an online petition supporting Proposition 8, which asserted that the state of California should sanction marriage only “between a man and a woman”. The proposition passed. As Haggis saw it, the San Diego church’s "public sponsorship of Proposition 8, which succeeded in taking away the civil rights of gay and lesbian citizens of California (...)