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To mark the 2nd anniversary of Al-Aqsa Flood, i offer some thoughts on cinema’s role in national liberation movements, aka Third Cinema
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The Alter-Destiny of film
Katılım Nisan 2021
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out of all the shit i could’ve stepped in the Lord saw fit it would be bootlickers(?) fandom and not 🤢🌇 and i thank Him for that!
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@SquintFeastwood good thing then that the kind Vladimir Ilyich made learning about imperialism central to learning about communism. & i agree with him being a collaborator
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Idc if Americans are educated about communism. First thing is they need to be educated about imperialism, and taking money from the Ellisons is simply collaborating with Empire
VibrationCinema@VibrationCinema
Vietnamese communists stole their early film equipment from the french, part of Third Cinema was subsidized by the scraps of post New Wave french filmmaking, CPUSA funded Ben Davis campaign vids etc. none of which required $20mil & Keke Palmer to teach the masses about dialectics
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which is the point, and it makes his claim that communistically using money from the family consolidating us media into a more efficient hasbara factory so he can inspire the masses all the more bullshit
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Well we are missing the political and cultural force of a revolutionary vanguard that would make such things possible. Boots Riley is what you get in the absence of one, for good and ill
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@RBarobax agreed but most commies can only name individual filmmakers who id as communist or state sponsored films from ussr/cuba and this is an opportunity to highlight the breadth of communist film esp from groups who achieved a level of success with little support
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@VibrationCinema This should not be a 50/50 issue, we should not have to cherry pitch examples from the past.
In 2026 you don't take money from the fucking Zionist nazi royal family to fund your films and call it fucking praxis lmao.
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Vietnamese communists stole their early film equipment from the french, part of Third Cinema was subsidized by the scraps of post New Wave french filmmaking, CPUSA funded Ben Davis campaign vids etc. none of which required $20mil & Keke Palmer to teach the masses about dialectics
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@KyleJos1917 the same can apply to this film raising class consciousness 🤷🏾♂️. The Panthers found that cop patrols, feeding kids, securing housing was much more effective at raising consciousness *and* getting the community involved than selling the little red book
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@VibrationCinema How do you know that "nothing happened"? How does one measure something this intangible? Sure, there's been no revolution yet, but when it finally comes, it'll be because millions of imperceptible shifts in consciousness added up to a qualitative break.
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the contradictions of film financing as a communist: what are you getting out of this deal with the devil? That’s the question Boots has yet to answer! which orgs are using Boosters to agitate people? is it raising consciousness? Or is it just generating revenue for Ellison et al
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@KyleJos1917 i feel like this is in reference to like Al Aqsa Flood or Iran’s strategic patience not the potential an unreleased film may have on raising class consciousness sans organizational support. Which was my point, it could be worth the compromise if orgs were agitating off it
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@VibrationCinema You don't get the weeks where decades happen without the decades where "nothing" happens.
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The Vietnamese guerillas were trained off those films well enough to expel the french. Enough ppl watched Free Homeland or Death to fund weapons for FSLN in the final days of Somoza! Same w the People Organzied for FRELIMO’s medical supply needs. Numbers aren’t everything 😘
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@VibrationCinema Great, how many people watched those movies?
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@KyleJos1917 yes but andor exposed ppl to class consciousness and nothing happened. Superman was the most proPalestinian film or whatever the discourse was and nothing happened. We’ve been here before
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@VibrationCinema Will his new film generate revenue for capitalists? Sure. Will it spread class consciousness? Well, we won't know until we see the movie. But the risk/reward calculation here isn't especially difficult.
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@KyleJos1917 i don’t have an approach lol that’s not my gig and im not saying taking compromised money is inherently bad. im saying that such a deal is not worth it for commies if the major impact is just generating revenue. if exposure is worth that to you then congrats!
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@VibrationCinema True. But 5-star restaurants attract enough customers to stay in business. So I'm not sure if the analogy tracks.
My point is that Boots' "deal with the devil" has yielded a level of exposure that your approach hasn't. This contradiction must also be reckoned with.
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@KyleJos1917 mcdonald’s sells the most hamburgers but that don’t make it 5 star cuisine 🤷🏾♂️
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@VibrationCinema Yeah, he should definitely start taking his cues from Vibration Cinema, which has managed to rack up 234 followers over the last 5 years.
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@t_NYC nah. i’m just shocked that he’d say that when you’d already explained why it’s bs 😭
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@VibrationCinema Oh shit I’m sorry I took your tweet as an insult my bad
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IATSE Thomas is gonna have a field day with this one
Jordan Fish@jwordfish
Somebody please let Boots Riley know how much lower his crew’s salaries should have been to satisfy your ideological commitments. We want that set ragged, unsafe, and non-union or it’s not leftist.
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@t_NYC i don’t know what he thought could be accomplished with that take 🥴
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@VibrationCinema Yeah mention my union just to talk shit, nice solidarity
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remember: a film’s meaning is found in its distribution/exhibition! the text means nothing in the abstract
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In response to growing demand from film workers, as well as BDS activists globally, the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) lays out below how BDS guidelines apply to complicit Israeli films and TV productions. 🧵
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still made at netflix for hoarding photos of me, Michael K Williams, and Ruth E Carter. they put me in vintage raf too
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I made a game! It's called 'sidechain'. You are the Angel of History. There's 10 minutes left at a warehouse party at the end of the world- it's your job to make sure they count. Will post on itch either tonight or tomorrow idk
🎶"Wanna Go" - @love_highest feat. @Tromac_wav
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#that mayor brought out some dust & bones from vermont as the special guest not Ellie the Elephant
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