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Julio Medem'en filmari buruz inglesez
Martin Mantxo , 18.09.2003 21:47
Medem'en azken filmari buruz, artikulo honek filmaren kontrako erreakzioei buruz aztertzen ditu. Erreakzio hauek eta Medem'ek dion bezala, egunero EHan bizi den giroaren ondorio bat dira, nun PPeko gobernuak korronte bakarti bat inposatzen duen.
New censorship attempt around film analysing the Basque conflict
The film by Julio Medem ‘The Basque ballgame: the skin against the stone’ (as a reference to the different elements within the game and their conflictive connotations) has suffered the attack of PP (Partido Popular) representatives. The film is due to be presented in the current Donostia Film Festival (51 edition)( www.sansebastianfestival.ya.com/2002/ing/index.htm) to start today 18th September. This is a documentary film presenting 70 interviews from 103 different people affected by the conflict. However, PP has asked the festival organisers to reconsider its screening as they believe it doesn’t portray a real image of what the Basque conflict is about.
Basque Julio Medem (Cows, The Red Squirrel, Earth, Lovers Of The Arctic Circle and Lucia and the Sex www.harvardfilmarchive.org/calendars/01marapr/medem.htm) is one of the best known current Spanish-speaking directors. He’s been compared to Buñuel and David Lynch. Though in most of his films the Basque element has a big influence (specially in Cows) it hasn’t been until now that he has decided to speak about the conflict affecting nowadays Basques.
However, this is a delicate issue in nowadays Spain, where PP has inherited the policy from PSOE (was this a continuation of the dictatorship style?) where the Basque conflict is ignored as such. Medem explains how he was so frustrated trying to get PP representatives to take part in this film, and to include in this way all parts of the conflict. PP refusal was based in the fact that Medem was interviewing people from the other side too, so according to them he aimed at portraying terrorist at the same level than terrorism victims.
I’m afraid that this is the connotation that ‘terrorism’ has in Spain, and now after the banning of Batasuna and many separatist initiatives and activities as terrorist activists too, that a political stand has too. This shows again this government’s willingness to find a solution to the conflict and to create dialogue with all the parts.
This was the same reason which was given by Donostia’s (san Sebastian) PP councillor Maria San Gil to the festival organisers. It was Maria San Gil herself who denied the existence of a political conflict in the Basque Country in a BBC Radio 4 program during ETA’s ceasefire. In the meantime, she acknowledged the Northern Irish one! Even the presenter was shocked and repeated the question to her. And she corroborated her previous statement: there is no political conflict but a gang of bigots trying to impose their politics.
If this is the attitude of the party in the government, what can we expect? Obviously, any attempts by intellectuals, journalists, etc, to present another side or to deepen in the sources of the conflict will be dismissed or attacked. In the current atmosphere, even to suggest ‘dialogue’ is a subversive act.
The film suffered its first set-back when last week, the representatives of two Basque peace and pro-government groups demanded Medem to withdraw their interviews for considering that the film wasn’t balance.
Medem released a brief note stating that he just wants people to see the film by themselves, and value his commitment for 'non-violence
and political dialogue'. He finished it by saying: 'I demand with all my strength the clean eyes for a non-hating effort'.
Even Donostia PSOE (Spanish Socialist Party) Odon Elorza –someone very far to be considered sympathetic of the Basque separatist demands- came out to defend the film saying that this attack against Medem’s film is ‘a lack of respect of the freedom of Speech’. He also said that the film shocked him and made him think.
Julio Medem (Donostia, 1958) started working in the film last year as a reaction to the new wave of Spanish nationalism which was wiping the basque Country. Medem left Euskal Herria (Basque Country) for Madrid in 1996 (when Aznar’s PP took over the Spanish government) as he had had enough of the political tension. But he confesses that the catalyst for making this new film was the escalation of Spanish nationalism with PP's government. He says: 'in the 13th May 2001 electoral campaigns I witnessed horrified a spectacle of lies, demagogy and lynching of Basque nationalism. This was the populist strategy of the Spanish government, joined by PSOE (and therefore all the Madrid media), splitting and reducing all the political options in the Basque Country to two sides, to two irreconcilable national fronts".
Notes from Julio Medem’s presentation of his film ‘The basque ballgame- the skin against the stone’
Medem made a written presentation of his latest film where he places it in the development of his cinematographic history and in his move to Madrid from the basque Country.
In this presentation he speaks about the difficulties he found to make the film and how it’s not the film he wanted to do because of PP’s denial to take part in it.
He confesses that the raise of PP’s anti-basquism while he lived in Madrid and the Spanish media abuse and manipulation of the information related to the Basque Country, was the catalyst to start the film. medem alleges that because of the raise of PP’s anti-basquism, Spaniards are confussing Basque nationalism with terrorism.
The director acknowledges that the problem of ETA’s terrorism is the priority in the Basque Country but that this is not the only problem. He argues that all the documentaries on the conflict that he has watched only show this issue and in many they even deny the conflict. He adds that PP has abuse this issue to gain votes and to perpetuate a situation.
His desire is to provoke the viewers to question their understanding of the conflict.
Medem finishes his film’s presentation saying he just aims to find a solution to the conflict: ‘if we don’t bring the edges closer, how will we heal the injury?’
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curioso03.10.2003 - 19:13es curioso y significativo que el artículo esté en inglés. interesting and significant that the articol is writing in english. veronica |