MDAG’s Artistic Director Takes Issue With Wim Wenders, Says Politics Belongs In Films: “We Have To Talk About These Things”
The artistic director of Millennium Docs Against Gravity in Poland is offering a rebuttal to Wim Wenders after the German director said filmmakers should “stay out of politics.”
“I’m not going to take issue with the person that said it, but with the sentiment,” Karol Piekarczyk said on the opening night of the international documentary festival in Warsaw, referring to remarks Wenders made as president of the Berlinale jury in February. “I don’t know since when the basic human rights have become political. We didn’t make them political.”
Piekarczyk added, “I think there is a deep misunderstanding about how filmmakers work, especially documentary filmmakers. It’s not like you have a list of topics and just choose, maybe I’ll do this or maybe I’ll do that. It doesn’t work like that. Alisa [Kovalenko, director of Traces] didn’t make her film because she had this list and she just figured out she’s going to make a film. She made it because it’s a personal story, but it’s a story that people have to hear. It’s a story about how sexual violence is treated like a weapon.”
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