I see that Sergio Wolf has been appointed as the new director of the BAFICI. Good for him. I have no idea what he’s like as an administrator but he’s a very good film critic and I used to love his film slot on Pepe Eliaschev’s ‘Esto Que Pasa’ radio program back in the days when it was on Radio Del Plata.
He’ll have his work cut out for him. On the one hand he’ll have the gilded gobshites who ran everything cultural in the city under Ibarra and Telerman dying for him to fail in order to justify their prophecies of doom and bleatings to foreign embassies. I did a little piss take on this here. On the other, he’ll have to deal with a ruthless, rich bastard of a mayor and there isn’t a cuter hoor in politics than the city’s culture minister.
My suggestion for the incoming director would be the following; try to focus on making things easy for ordinary film goers and not just for film people, film students, culture workers and insiders in general. Most of us don’t give a damn about the parties or the foreign invitees and don’t have liveried servants who we can send to buy tickets for us. We’d like there to be lots of interesting films, that it be easy to find out when and where they are on and that it not be necessary to waste huge amounts of time blue arsing it around the city and standing for ages in queues to get tickets for them.
Good luck Sergio, you´ll need it.
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