Spectacles of suffering and fascism in cinema

Spectacles of suffering and fascism in cinema

There’s a scene in Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom, Pier Paolo Pasolini’s final film, in which the characters – four debauched libertines, eight recruited men, four hired sex workers, and the young men and women brought to a secluded mansion by the corrupt quartet to be tortured – eat faeces. In a mock wedding reception for two people who have been forced to marry each other, everyone sits at tables in a vast dining room, and eats faeces. Many of…

Fascism does not forgive symbols

This gem of an historical sculpture by Emiro Garzón will never again return to us, or its place on the Avenida de Las Américas, illuminating the darkness of these dark neo-liberal times with his raised right hand. _ Colombia  fighting for peace. Photo by Leon Hernandez / Flickr. Creative Commons License. Armando Orozco Tovar   The statue of Jaime Pardo Leal was violated. They told me but I didn’t believe it until I saw it with my own eyes. I did…