Looking forward to the pv of William Raban’s new film 72-82 at the Hackney Picturehouse on Friday. Fortunately, it’s also screened on 13 Oct. as part of the BFI London Film Festival – details here.
If you can get hold of the winter 2012 issue of no.where’s magazine Sequence, there’s an interesting article by Raban – Politics and Experimental Film – A Personal View. Here’s a few quotes as a taster:
“Four principles of political filmmaking:
(1) reflexivity: active audience participation rather than passive spectatorship;
(2) relexivity: revealing the modes of production rather than concealing them;
(3) relexivity: as understood in the social sciences – the effect that the researcher [film-maker] has on their subjects [content and audience];
(4) an ethical dimension of aesthetics – appearance determined by material conditions of production, it is not the pursuit of style.” Willam Raban.
“Art does not do politics by reaching the real. It does it by inventing fictions that challenge the existing distribution of the real and the fictional.” Jacques Ranciere.
“The problem is not to make political films, but to make films politically.” Jean-Luc Godard.