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Resistances: art and words for fighting political defamation [1]

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Date: 2024-02 

The pandemic of disinformation and other political violence linked to the rise of the far right is a problem in the contemporary world. What are their individual collective impacts? How can we resist them? Some of the answers to this enormous challenge facing democracies are in Resistances: art and words to combat political defamation, a five-part documentary series produced by democraciaAbierta, the affiliate section of the UK’s platform openDemocracy.net

With episodes lasting between 15 and 20 minutes each, Resistances tells the stories of four prominent intellectuals and/or artists in the Brazilian public sphere who were victims of political hatred in their country of origin and who, even in exile in different parts of the world, have continued to fight to survive the violence of digital defamation and think of ways to confront it politically: choreographer Wagner Schwartz, philosopher and writer Marcia Tiburi, anthropologist Débora Diniz and writer and journalist Jean Wyllys. All were victims of so-called fake news, the attempted assassination of their characters and the death threats that followed the election of Jair Bolsonaro as president of Brazil at the end of 2018.In their various places of exile, whether in Barcelona, Paris, or New York, or gathered in London, the four talk about the various survival actions they have taken in their struggle to rebuild the private, public, and political spaces they occupied before falling victim to the far right's "hate machine"; and they also discuss the various creative strategies they have followed to confront the successive attempts to destroy their public careers by this machine, whose cogs include political, military and religious leaders from the far right and right.

Directed by Cristina Juliana Abril and produced by Francesc Badia i Dalmases, this miniseries, with its direct visual language and innovative journalistic narrative, aims not only to document his experience of exile and his fight against fascism and hate speech but also to illustrate how strategies of self-defense through art and words can inspire many other people who become victims of fake news and programmed digital defamation around the world.

Resistances was filmed between 2021 and 2022 in Barcelona, Paris, New York, and London, the places where the different exiles lived. The film has already been released in the three European cities and had a national premiere in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil, to great acclaim from audiences and critics. "It's a moving and politically very powerful document about an issue that haunts the world today and threatens artists, intellectuals and politicians everywhere: disinformation for the purposes of harassment, silencing, reputation assassination and dehumanization. Take, for example, the role this evil is playing in the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East," explains journalist Francesc Badia, director of democraciaAberta and creator and producer of the series. "Listening and understanding what strategies these four Brazilians have developed to deal with the material and emotional damage of defamation and remain politically active is something everyone should do. That's why I invite you to watch this series," concludes Badia.

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