/ Peter Watkins or the Finger on the Wound /
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Wednesday 18 September / 7:30 p.m.
Filmoteca de Catalunya_Sala ChomónThe War Game
PETER WATKINS, 1965. Non-professionals performers. Great Britain. Original version with Spanish subtitles. 47’. Digital archive.
A possible war between powers is not something confined to the past.
More than half a century later, this mockumentary depicting a nuclear bombing in the English city of Rochester remains a relevant, urgent, and necessary film.Introduction by Rafael Poch, journalist and writer specializing in international politics.
Free admission (maximum of two per person).
Available at the box office from September 4, 2024.
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War, Insubmission, Art
The project "War, Insubmission, Art" highlights the works of several artists who, in the darkest times, swam against the current and exposed the criminal absurdity of war propaganda.
Using modest formats (engraving, leaflets passed hand to hand, 16mm film) and evading all kinds of threats, they created works that have become references for defiance in war.
One does not have to be a pacifist to oppose the wars of the present.
It is not necessary to speak of love and care to denounce the vile acts from which the butchers in suits profit.
Here we honor those who, in the face of the spokespeople for genocide, but also against the beautiful souls, denounced time and time again the gears of that bloody machine that is the business of the nation.
Again and again.
Without concessions.
With whatever they had at hand.
Here we honor those who did not accept the servility of convenience, who did not fall into the trap of denouncing the denounceable, who did not yield to the dictates of opportunity. We honor here Peter Watkins, George Grosz, Gerd Arntz, and so many others who were uncompromising, intolerant, and clearly unwilling to engage in constructive dialogue.
Defiance of war demands tearing apart the web with which the ideological officials of capital normalize barbarism.
The obscenity of organized slaughter allows for no trivialities.