“Where art is a weapon, it is only so when it is art”
–Albert Maltz, one of the Hollywood Ten
Last night, HBO launched “Exterminate All the Brutes”, a four-part
docudrama by Raoul Peck that is both art and weapon. As a director of
the great narrative film “The Young Karl Marx
<https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/02/23/marx-at-the-movies/>” and the
equally great James Baldwin documentary “I Am Not Your Negro
<https://louisproyect.org/2017/02/01/three-documentaries-7/>”, Peck
includes staged performances by professional actors to highlight the
cruelties visited on native peoples in the Americas and in Africa. In
the first episode, we see a scripted reenactment of a massacre American
soldiers carried out against Seminoles and their escaped slave allies in
1836 who dared resist ethnic cleansing.
We also see a savage attack on the Congolese people in 1892, during King
Leopold’s reign. In this reenactment, a Catholic mission founded by the
Swedish priest Edward Sjoblom witnesses a white rubber plantation owner
storming into the modest church, gun in hand, and forcing a Black
parishioner from his pew. As everyone gathers outside the church, the
colonist fires a bullet into the man’s head and then forces a young
parishioner to cut off his hand to be proof to the authorities that law
and order was being upheld, just as white settlers often took Indian
scalps in the USA.
https://louisproyect.org/2021/04/09/exterminate-all-the-brutes/
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