Cinema Politica: Artists Against Apartheid

Ariel view of Israeli apartheid wall cutting though Palestinian lands.

As someone working in the media arts sector, I signed the 500 artist BDS letter along with Cinema Politica’s Executive Director Svetla Turnin. We signed because it was a tangible action that connected art to the resistance against oppression.

We also signed because we feel that too often artists and those working in the arts who are privately critical of Israel take two paths around the issue of Palestine’s occupation: Ignore it all together in their work and their public life, or adopt a liberal stance that argues it is not the role of art to intervene in such matters.

At Cinema Politica we believe it is one of the fundamental—and most transformative—roles of art, and we see our screenings as interventions on a range of important issues, including Palestine.Connecting art, audiences, and action.

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