Ars Gratia Artis

Film, as they say, is an industry; and like all industries, it feels that it must side with Israel's genocide in Gaza. Has any hub of this larger Industrial Majesty — whether Cineaste, Criterion, MUBI or Sight & Sound — called for a ceasefire? They each responded to middle-class progressivism by reshuffling their respective canons for Inclusivity's sake, without disturbing the bottom line of billionaires, but internalizing the Holocaust’s ethical lessons — well, that would be expecting too much from movie fetishists weeping over Night and Fog. Naturally, they remain dry-eyed and decorous as the Holy Land starves the children of Palestine. 

Cinephiles may as well be the IDF bullets fired at UNICEF. 

Their institutions have reduced Palestinians to nothing.

by Daniel Riccuito