if the 9 circles of hell were real, i hope her body is cut up into 9 slices because she belongs in every single one of them.
(very disorganized rant incoming)
probably within the first 12 minutes, i nearly ragequitted the documentary because leni riefenstahl, in usual fashion, was bullshitting through her teeth about how she wanted to keep her art separate from politics, or something (i basically tuned her out).
for the fascist diaper-wipers (rn, im looking at you berlinale festival), art IS political. politics is not just how you vote or the government in general; it is the systems that surround you, the codes and legacies that persist in society that influence your outcome beyond your personal responsibility. being queer is political, being a person of color is political, being an immigrant is political, and so forth. your mere existence is political. art is created from what you have seen, experienced, and felt in life from the effects of those politics. art is fueled by the fire in your veins when you move through the very life influenced by politics. art can be a cause or response to politics, a revolution or propaganda. art is everything to politics, but the antithesis. you know what actually is the antithesis, but also technically impossible because art is inherently political? being apolitical!!!!
if you want to whine about everything being too political as an artist or how you want nothing to do with politics, then like leni, what you are is a coward who refuses to acknowledge that you have benefitted from the very systems that have historically oppressed others. riding the fence is how you enable bigotry, discrimination, and worst of all, dehumanization and utmost cruelty. how can you still believe in yourself when you say you are apolitical and then turn a blind eye to the holocausts of today? the blatant evidence of palestinians getting genocided by israel, the stories of innocent civilians being unlawfully arrested and detained in inhumane conditions at ice facilities, etc.?
if the 9 circles of hell were real, i hope her body is cut up into 9 slices because she belongs in every single one of them.
(very disorganized rant incoming)
probably within the first 12 minutes, i nearly ragequitted the documentary because leni riefenstahl, in usual fashion, was bullshitting through her teeth about how she wanted to keep her art separate from politics, or something (i basically tuned her out).
for the fascist diaper-wipers (rn, im looking at you berlinale festival), art IS political. politics is not just how you vote or the government in general; it is the systems that surround you, the codes and legacies that persist in society that influence your outcome beyond your personal responsibility. being queer is political, being a person of color is political, being an immigrant is political, and so forth. your mere existence is political. art is created from what you have seen, experienced, and felt in life from the effects of those politics. art is fueled by the fire in your veins when you move through the very life influenced by politics. art can be a cause or response to politics, a revolution or propaganda. art is everything to politics, but the antithesis. you know what actually is the antithesis, but also technically impossible because art is inherently political? being apolitical!!!!
if you want to whine about everything being too political as an artist or how you want nothing to do with politics, then like leni, what you are is a coward who refuses to acknowledge that you have benefitted from the very systems that have historically oppressed others. riding the fence is how you enable bigotry, discrimination, and worst of all, dehumanization and utmost cruelty. how can you still believe in yourself when you say you are apolitical and then turn a blind eye to the holocausts of today? the blatant evidence of palestinians getting genocided by israel, the stories of innocent civilians being unlawfully arrested and detained in inhumane conditions at ice facilities, etc.?