Manifesto of Denouncement of Leftist Establishment’s Use of Movies and Art for Propaganda

The mindset that permeates the arts today is undeniably leftist, in bondage to leftist ideologies and serving political and social goals of the movement.

This humiliating servitude is poisonous for humanity. Art is where laboring humanity goes to be soothed with light, to cast their cares away and see beauty where they saw none before. Art, therefore, is beyond left and right. It must not serve any ideology and must not become an instrument of any mass movement. It should not involve mass amounts of money from private funds of the rich to soil the minds of the middle class.

The Marxist approach of using art as a hammer of social change is absolutely destructive to the essence of art as much as Marxist ideology was and still is destructive to the actual social order whenever applied.

There is not a more dangerous place where this tragic ideology is played out than in the movies, TV and any medium that reaches millions at a time.Movies are particularly destructive when used to slay minds for an ideology, since the medium has a threefold power of visuals, sound and music in one space.

It is not the subject of the movies that should be free from political undertones. It is the goal of art that must not be political. Art must transcend politics through the power of beauty. Art must give ‘a living water’ not a muddy political solution. Any political and social solution is incomplete and for an artist to act as a proponent of a political change or, worse, as its propagator is a violation of the basic principles of art.

Anti-human and naturally rejected radical leftist ideology has grounded itself in the cultural mainstream and attempts to coin itself into a standard by using movies above all. By using movies as the spokes of a propaganda machine, they destroy the very essence of the art of moviemaking and hinder its progress. Today movies are corrupt; they serve purposes of various corporate-political structures. They are not moved from within but only by external movements of organized entities. Many filmmakers have become ‘useful idiots’ for a well-structured mechanism that is abusing the evolution of filmmaking as an art.

Regardless one’s political views, one must not allow filmmaking to be the whore of a democratic-socialist party, environmentalist movement, anti-war movement, gay movement, racial equality movement, sexual liberation movement and all these movements and isms…

Propaganda is destroying movies and culture in general. Truth is beautiful and it needs to be simply shown. It is lies and only lies that need propaganda to live. All the technology and money cannot save movies today from the boredom and tastelessness of an establishment sanctioned social realism style. Yet, all that money can indoctrinate masses of innocent people, unaware of the truth of history, as it is veiled in lies and deceit to the viewer.

We denounce any form of abuse of filmmaking by any movement. If democrats want to win elections, let them do it using their own political means. LET ART BE FREE! If environmentalists want to save the globe from melting, let them drive less limousines and fly less private jets. LET ART BE FREE! If the anti-war crowd wants the troops out of Iraq, let them protest all day long but LET ART BE FREE!

We denounce any form of political agenda buying us by sponsoring our festivals and giving us grants. We denounce film as a tool to be used as a form of manipulation and mass hypnosis. We denounce the use of subliminal messages and subtle implications that promote your causes and ruin our ART.

You have your goals we have our own. If we believe in your causes we will help in other ways but we will not use art to do your work for you anymore. If you are so confident in your message of truth, then go and convince people and talk to them directly. Take away your political apparatchik implants from our fields of dreams. We need to produce ‘a living bread’ not manufactured ideological meat you need to sell to your voters and consumers.

We need to bring beauty down to the world again and allow truth to speak volumes through the screen without complying with your cultural establishment’s anti-art plan.

Years of leftist control of the movie industry have proved to be ruinous and impending the growth of movies as an art and entertainment form.

We denounce your establishment to use our minds and control our freedoms anymore. Have the guts to finish your damn revolution on your own without mass mind control!

Let the movies and art alone and remember that your days are counted for we have risen!

Jeani DiCarlo & Yervand Kochar