From: Adam Hyman (email suppressed)
Date: Tue Oct 18 2005 - 17:54:07 PDT
Well if everything is corrupt, then there is no purity/corruption
distinction anymore; a false dichotomy made so we feel worse about the
world, rather than accepting the complexities of the conditions we're in,
and working to fix things that seem wrong.
Sorry, that's a bit off topic.
I am always struck by how guests to Filmforum, at our screenings in
Hollywood, enjoy that we are screening "in the heart of Hollywood." It's
nice that it gives everyone a thrill; it does to me as well. But at this
point it doesn't really seem like an important distinction - there isn't
such a clean separation between the two. Heck, every experimental filmmaker
I know also likes more popular narrative features (well, not all of them,
but at least few). And economically, many, if not most, of the people
making experimental work in Southern California also work in the "industry."
So does that make everyone here corrupt? I don't think so.
Kazan getting an Award has nothing to do with corruption, in my opinion. He
was a complicated fellow who made great films and also betrayed people. The
Academy, a conservative if liberal group of people, decided to honor the
"important filmmaker" side of him.
If Oscars only went to honorable and nice people it would be a really short
show every year.
A
On 10/18/05 5:24 PM, "konrad" <email suppressed> wrote:
>> konrad:
>> please prove/define "non-corrupt" re: the academy
>> giving elia kazan a lifetime acheivment award
>> was not non-corupt?
>> if i am to understand the phrase as not corrupt
>> anti-corruption even
>> what/where on the planet is this?
>
> Do you know of anything that is pure, not corrupt to some
> degree? Maybe everything's corrupt. I don't know. I just
> meant that painful as it is sometimes, doing favors, schmoozing
> at parties, whether it's Tom's basement, NYFF or The Oscars, is
> a kind of social lubricant, not to be dismissed. It functions
> to fulfill some human needs: making contact, gaining trust,
> which in turn allows people to support and work with each other.
> As an end in itself, or used to selfish or exclusionary ends,
> well, maybe that's when it gets corrupt.
>
>
> konrad
>
> ^Z
>
>
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