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“Your revolution is over, Mr. Lebowski. Condolences. The bums lost!”
Next protest flick in celebration of @justlookupdoc is more a direct call to action!!
In the introduction to her translation of “The Crimson Thread of Abandon,” by Shuji Terayama, Elizabeth Armstrong describes him as an outsider with endless amount of chips on his shoulders. What we get in his iconic resistance film THROW AWAY YOUR BOOKS, RALLY IN THE STREETS is a smug rejection of the student movements in the late 1960s throughout Japan, the snobbery of the new-wave filmmakers that existed alongside them, and - of course - a not-so-subtle jab at the western influences that he believes to have spread a poisonous hypocrisy on young people in hopes of radical change; perhaps a realization of the true costs of the Faustian bargain Japan made with the United States following the war on its way to being reborn as the world’s second largest economic superpower in the 1980s.
Be it through the proliferation of drug use, commodification of hippie culture by a warmongering society, or (in a kind of bizarro parallel to our own Occupy Wall Street movements in 2011) a retreat of protesting parties into ineffective/masturbatory academic discourse, Throw Away Your Books declares the old wave of activism hitting the beach by 1970 to be a failure. The film’s solution is to encourage young people to ditch the structural deadweight, the classrooms, and go do SOMETHING - even something as pointless as hanging a phallic punching bag from a crosswalk to break up the monotony.
In @justlookupdoc Michael has a similar epiphany that any kind of way to get people “off-script” is an effective maneuver for radical change. If it gets you thinking, even in a negative way, about what the activists are doing - you are at least more open to being swayed by a movement.
Ironically, in Terayama’s attempts to convince us that we had all turned on, tuned in, and dropped ourselves out of any chance for real progress, he made one of the best psychedelic films of all time. To me that feels like a kind of layer of self awareness, and an admission by Terayama that even in their failure the 60’s were pretty damn fun.
“Your revolution is over, Mr. Lebowski. Condolences. The bums lost!”
Next protest flick in celebration of @justlookupdoc is more a direct call to action!!
In the introduction to her translation of “The Crimson Thread of Abandon,” by Shuji Terayama, Elizabeth Armstrong describes him as an outsider with endless amount of chips on his shoulders. What we get in his iconic resistance film THROW AWAY YOUR BOOKS, RALLY IN THE STREETS is a smug rejection of the student movements in the late 1960s throughout Japan, the snobbery of the new-wave filmmakers that existed alongside them, and - of course - a not-so-subtle jab at the western influences that he believes to have spread a poisonous hypocrisy on young people in hopes of radical change; perhaps a realization of the true costs of the Faustian bargain Japan made with the United States following the war on its way to being reborn as the world’s second largest economic superpower in the 1980s.
Be it through the proliferation of drug use, commodification of hippie culture by a warmongering society, or (in a kind of bizarro parallel to our own Occupy Wall Street movements in 2011) a retreat of protesting parties into ineffective/masturbatory academic discourse, Throw Away Your Books declares the old wave of activism hitting the beach by 1970 to be a failure. The film’s solution is to encourage young people to ditch the structural deadweight, the classrooms, and go do SOMETHING - even something as pointless as hanging a phallic punching bag from a crosswalk to break up the monotony.
In @justlookupdoc Michael has a similar epiphany that any kind of way to get people “off-script” is an effective maneuver for radical change. If it gets you thinking, even in a negative way, about what the activists are doing - you are at least more open to being swayed by a movement.
Ironically, in Terayama’s attempts to convince us that we had all turned on, tuned in, and dropped ourselves out of any chance for real progress, he made one of the best psychedelic films of all time. To me that feels like a kind of layer of self awareness, and an admission by Terayama that even in their failure the 60’s were pretty damn fun.
“Your revolution is over, Mr. Lebowski. Condolences. The bums lost!”
Next protest flick in celebration of @justlookupdoc is more a direct call to action!!
In the introduction to her translation of “The Crimson Thread of Abandon,” by Shuji Terayama, Elizabeth Armstrong describes him as an outsider with endless amount of chips on his shoulders. What we get in his iconic resistance film THROW AWAY YOUR BOOKS, RALLY IN THE STREETS is a smug rejection of the student movements in the late 1960s throughout Japan, the snobbery of the new-wave filmmakers that existed alongside them, and - of course - a not-so-subtle jab at the western influences that he believes to have spread a poisonous hypocrisy on young people in hopes of radical change; perhaps a realization of the true costs of the Faustian bargain Japan made with the United States following the war on its way to being reborn as the world’s second largest economic superpower in the 1980s.
Be it through the proliferation of drug use, commodification of hippie culture by a warmongering society, or (in a kind of bizarro parallel to our own Occupy Wall Street movements in 2011) a retreat of protesting parties into ineffective/masturbatory academic discourse, Throw Away Your Books declares the old wave of activism hitting the beach by 1970 to be a failure. The film’s solution is to encourage young people to ditch the structural deadweight, the classrooms, and go do SOMETHING - even something as pointless as hanging a phallic punching bag from a crosswalk to break up the monotony.
In @justlookupdoc Michael has a similar epiphany that any kind of way to get people “off-script” is an effective maneuver for radical change. If it gets you thinking, even in a negative way, about what the activists are doing - you are at least more open to being swayed by a movement.
Ironically, in Terayama’s attempts to convince us that we had all turned on, tuned in, and dropped ourselves out of any chance for real progress, he made one of the best psychedelic films of all time. To me that feels like a kind of layer of self awareness, and an admission by Terayama that even in their failure the 60’s were pretty damn fun.
This first scene of Zabriskie Point remains seared, clear as day, in my brain long after the Pink Floyd soundtrack and explosive slow-mo finale that brought me there in the first place have faded into my teenage memories.
Working on @justlookupdoc has reminded me just how beautiful the cycle of young people stepping up to reconquer the world can be. Some movements stick; some don’t. I’m grateful for them all, and even more grateful for the opportunity to help Emma, Betsy, and the team tell the story of one contemporary movement that most certainly will.
EP’d by Adam McKay and Joshua Oppenheimer, JUST LOOK UP hits the road this week @cphdox!
Follow @justlookupdoc for updates. In the meantime, more (unsanctioned) favorite depictions of how the sausage is made, straight to the timeline from yours truly. 🌎
“I don’t remember your name, but I remember those damn yo-yo’s.”
Bunny Martin, whose birthday was yesterday, on To Tell The Truth 50 years ago. 🐐
Happy Earth Day! Grateful that work brought me to new corners of the planet this year - and to have been inspired by efforts for her preservation taking place here in our own back yard!
Happy Earth Day! Grateful that work brought me to new corners of the planet this year - and to have been inspired by efforts for her preservation taking place here in our own back yard!
Happy Earth Day! Grateful that work brought me to new corners of the planet this year - and to have been inspired by efforts for her preservation taking place here in our own back yard!
Happy Earth Day! Grateful that work brought me to new corners of the planet this year - and to have been inspired by efforts for her preservation taking place here in our own back yard!
Happy Earth Day! Grateful that work brought me to new corners of the planet this year - and to have been inspired by efforts for her preservation taking place here in our own back yard!
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