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Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives.

They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me.

G.O.

Two cinematic giants, side by side.

The films included are:

Stanley Kubrick
– Path of Glory (1957)
– Spartacus (1960)
– Lolita (1962)
– Dr. Strangelove (1964)
– 2001: A space odyssey (1968)
– A Clockwork Orange (1971)
– Barry Lyndon (1975)
– The Shining (1980)
– Full Metal Jacket (1987)
– Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

Andrei Tarkovsky
-Ivan’s Childhood (1962)
– Andrei Rublev (1966)
– Solaris (1972)
– The Mirror (1975)
– Stalker (1979)
– Nostalghia (1983)
– The Sacrifice (1986)

Music: Max Richter – “On the nature of daylight”.

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Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them from starving, and the rest he keeps for himself.

G.O.

I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that’s my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again… the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.

J.G.B.

Programme (Selected Filmography):
0:00 Introduction
01:55 Tale of Tales, dir: Yuri Norstein
03:50 Hedgehog in The Fog, dir: Yuri Norstein
04:27 Frank Kafka’s A Country’s Doctor, dir: Yamamura Koji
05:42 Atama Yama, dir: Yamamura Koji
07:38 The Red Turtle, dir: Michaël Dudok de Wit
08:52 Tale of Princess Kaguya, dir: Takahata Isao
09:56 Song of The Sea, dir: Tomm Moore
10:51 The Wind Rises, dir: Miyazaki Hayao
12:20 Perfect Blue, dir: Kon Satoshi
13:17 The Iron Giant, dir: Brad Bird
13:58 Fantastic Planet, dir: Rene Laloux
14:25 Grave of The Fireflies, dir: Takahata, Isao
16:00 When the Wind Blows. dir: Murakami, Jimmy T.
16:16 Watership Down, dir: Martin Rosen & John Hubley
16:17 Ja teeb trikke, dir: Priit Parn
17:28 Dimensions of Dialogue, dir: Jan Švankmajer
18:14 Alice, dir: Jan Švankmajer
18:52 The Mascot, dir: Irene Starewicz, Ladislas Starevich
19:01 The Diary of Tortov Roddle, dir: Kato Kunio
19:55 Yukidoke, dir: Oyama Kei
20:24 Renaissance, dir: Walerian Borowcyzk
20:26 Streets of Crocodile, dir: Brothers Quay
21:05 Krysar – The Pied Piper, dir: Jiří Barta
22:48 Waltz with Bashir, dir: Ari Folman
24:06 Persepolis, dir: Marjane Satrapi
24:17 It’s Such a Beautiful Day Trilogy, dir: Don Hertzfeldt
24:42 Beladonna of Sadness, dir: Yamamoto Eiichii
25:46 Angel’s Egg, dir: Oshii Mamoru
26:47 Les Jeaux des Anges, dir: Walerian Borowcyzk
27:02 A Ship of Oranges, dir: Ofuji Noboru
27:54 Spirited Away, dir: Miyazaki Hayao
28:19 Akira, dir: Otomo Katsuhiro
28:22 The Adventures of Prince Achmed, dir: Lotte Reiniger
28:25 Howl’s Moving Castle, dir: Miyazaki Hayao
29:19 Robot Carnival, dir: Hidetoshi Oomori, Hiroyuki Kitakubo, Hiroyuki Kitazume, Katsuhiro Otomo, Koji Morimoto, Mao Lamdo, Takashi Nakamura and Yasuomi Umetsu
29:25 Fantastic Mr. Fox/ Isle of Dogs, dir: Wes Anderson
29:37 Fantasia, Walt Disney Studio
30:29 Pas des Deux, dir: Norman McLaren
30:59 The Nightmare Before Christmas, dir: Henry Selick/Tim Burton
31:51 Wall-E, dir: Andrew Stanton
32:23 Conclusion

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