As much as Hollywood tries, it is not the best in the business of making progressive political art. And so it was no surprise that at this year's Academy Awards the evening was once again neutered of any political context, or of any real comment on the state of American society and the damage that empire is inflicting on the planet and on itself. And since there wasn't a Michael Moore to be booed off stage by paid stage hands and sideline "plants" (not the audience, as was widely reported), the rich and groomed were generally at ease, even during the segment highlighting outstanding work in the genre of feature documentary, thanks mostly to the daft and dismissive remarks by Jerry Seinfeld.
It seems that Seinfeld doesn't have much respect for the art of documentary making, and his commentary has not gone unnoticed in the doc community. John Sinno, producer of the Academy Award nominated IRAQ IN FRAGMENTS sent Art Threat an open letter to the Academy that we publish here with his permission.
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Posted by Ezra Winton on March 4, 2007 in
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