“The combination of backwards tradition, capitalist commodification, and class contradiction all help create a culture where women are not only sidelined but are crushed by a vice and deprived of their right to voice out, to quote Alexandra Kollontai. Rape culture and bourgeois society are inherently linked, because both enable a system where a patriarchy,…
Day: June 25, 2020
To quarantined filmmakers who never met Lino Brocka
By SARI DALENA To the young filmmaker who never met Lino Brocka, Whose thesis films are disrupted by the pandemic, Who cannot attend film festivals, Who are struggling to write scripts in their homes, Who are streaming movies at 2 in the morning Whose film grant cannot be released Who cannot do an internship Whose…