{"id":387618,"date":"2018-12-03T19:25:07","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T18:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-power-of-the-documentary\/"},"modified":"2018-12-03T19:25:07","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T18:25:07","slug":"the-power-of-the-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-power-of-the-documentary\/","title":{"rendered":"The Power of the Documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><em>At the same time that John Pilger makes his keynote speech to open his <a href=\"https:\/\/johnpilger.us5.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=81e01f026144a7a39810a239b&amp;id=cdbf32c47b&amp;e=8bf538eec1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/johnpilger.us5.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3D81e01f026144a7a39810a239b%26id%3Dcdbf32c47b%26e%3D8bf538eec1&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1543595726457000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFKDoBM0_tx9OjX4ToM6mYjsojIEg\">The Power of Documentary Film Festival<\/a>, you can read the text here.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Breaking the Silence<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The Power of the Documentary<\/em> is an unusual film festival, because its aim is to break a silence that extends across much of film-making, the arts and journalism.<\/p>\n<p>By silence I mean the exclusion of ideas that might change the way we see our world, or help us make sense of it.<\/p>\n<p>There are 26 films in this festival and each one pushes back a screen of propaganda \u2013 not just the propaganda of governments but of a powerful groupthink of special interests designed to distract and intimidate us and which often takes its cue from social media and is the enemy of the arts and political freedom.<\/p>\n<p>Documentary films that challenge this are an endangered species. Many of the films in the festival are rare. Several have never been seen in this country. Why?<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no official censorship in Australia, but there is a fear of ideas. Ideas of real politics. Ideas of dissent. Ideas of satire. Ideas that go against the groupthink. Ideas that reject the demands of corporatism. Ideas that reach back to the riches of Australia\u2019s hidden history.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s as if our political memory has been hi-jacked, and we\u2019ve become so immersed in a self-regarding <em>me-ism<\/em> that we\u2019ve forgotten how to act together and challenge rapacious power that is now rampant in our own country and across the world.<\/p>\n<p>(pause)<\/p>\n<p>The term \u201cdocumentary\u201d was&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2018\/11\/the-power-of-the-documentary\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the same time that John Pilger makes his keynote speech to open his The Power of Documentary Film Festival, you can read the text here. Breaking the Silence The Power of the Documentary is an unusual film festival, because its aim is to break a silence that extends across much of film-making, the arts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-387618","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}