Comments on: "Waltz with Bashir": the Art Director’s Cut at War http://www.radioopensource.org/waltz-with-bashir-the-art-directors-cut-at-war/ Christopher Lydon in conversation on arts, ideas and politics Sun, 12 Feb 2012 19:09:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: potter http://www.radioopensource.org/waltz-with-bashir-the-art-directors-cut-at-war/#comment-93168 potter Sun, 26 Apr 2009 22:46:14 +0000 http://www.radioopensource.org/?p=2632#comment-93168 Ah- I see what I did wrong. Let me try it again: <a href="http://www.salon.com/opinion/kamiya/2009/01/13/waltz_with_bashir/index1.html" rel="nofollow">What “Waltz with Bashir” can teach us about Gaza</a> Ah- I see what I did wrong. Let me try it again:

What “Waltz with Bashir” can teach us about Gaza

]]> By: potter http://www.radioopensource.org/waltz-with-bashir-the-art-directors-cut-at-war/#comment-93167 potter Sun, 26 Apr 2009 22:43:26 +0000 http://www.radioopensource.org/?p=2632#comment-93167 Terri Gross does a good interview with Ari Folman. the soldier/filmmaker: <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=98634515" rel="nofollow">Dancing with Memory</a> Also <a href="http://www.salon.com/opinion/kamiya/2009/01/13/waltz_with_bashir/index.html?source=newsletter"<What "Waltz with Bashir" can teach us about Gaza</a> written as the war on Gaza was still on. Terri Gross does a good interview with Ari Folman. the soldier/filmmaker:

Dancing with Memory

Also <a href=”http://www.salon.com/opinion/kamiya/2009/01/13/waltz_with_bashir/index.html?source=newsletter”<What “Waltz with Bashir” can teach us about Gaza written as the war on Gaza was still on.

]]> By: potter http://www.radioopensource.org/waltz-with-bashir-the-art-directors-cut-at-war/#comment-93166 potter Tue, 21 Apr 2009 23:09:00 +0000 http://www.radioopensource.org/?p=2632#comment-93166 The trailer (linked above) prompts me to order the DVD coming out in June. I have not seen this movie. James Der Derian’s quote from Walter Benjamin is very apt- that this form seems like it finds an ingenious way to be a kind of Trojan horse, an intervention, that could, if taken in, help, even if in some small way, to put a drag on more trauma-causing-trauma whichin turn causes individual and mass repression (the kind too painful to think about). This the trauma that repeats itself into the future. It’s gratifying that elsewhere in the world where this movie has been shown, it was taken to be not only specific to the Sabra and Shatila massacre, but as something more universal about the effects of war and human nature. Computer assisted animation has made this possible but also the collision of psychological need with artistic vision. Wonderful that it has met a certain audience. We are fortunate. The attempt itself, whether or not it makes a big difference, is to be greatly admired and emulated. Regarding 1982, after Sabra and Shatilla, for the first time I felt there was no longer a question about there being blood on Israel's hands, about Israel holding a moral high ground. I agree that the repression also continues to include this Gaza War, The trailer (linked above) prompts me to order the DVD coming out in June. I have not seen this movie.

James Der Derian’s quote from Walter Benjamin is very apt- that this form seems like it finds an ingenious way to be a kind of Trojan horse, an intervention, that could, if taken in, help, even if in some small way, to put a drag on more trauma-causing-trauma whichin turn causes individual and mass repression (the kind too painful to think about). This the trauma that repeats itself into the future.

It’s gratifying that elsewhere in the world where this movie has been shown, it was taken to be not only specific to the Sabra and Shatila massacre, but as something more universal about the effects of war and human nature.

Computer assisted animation has made this possible but also the collision of psychological need with artistic vision. Wonderful that it has met a certain audience. We are fortunate. The attempt itself, whether or not it makes a big difference, is to be greatly admired and emulated.

Regarding 1982, after Sabra and Shatilla, for the first time I felt there was no longer a question about there being blood on Israel’s hands, about Israel holding a moral high ground. I agree that the repression also continues to include this Gaza War,

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