Film is, by its very nature, highly propagandistic. That is, when you read a book, if you detect you’re being lied to or manipulated, you can always stop reading, close the book momentarily and say, “Wait just a minute, there’s something wrong here!” You can’t do that in a film: You’re bombarded with sound and images, all expertly crafted to give you selected information and to stimulate certain feelings, and you can’t stop the barrage, not in a theater anyway. The visuals and sound and music-and along with them, the underlying agenda of the filmmakers-pursue you relentlessly, overwhelming your emotions and senses. And when you leave the theater, unless you’re really objective to what you’ve experienced, you’ve been changed-even if just a little bit.

The Marketing of Evil by David Kupelian

We had a great experience at the San Antonio Film Festival a couple of months ago. This summer (2005), we made a movie, a father/son project. We had so much fun, and the people really enjoyed the film. It’s really a funny piece. In San Antonio, we won the Audience Choice Award, and we were nominated in the top five for the narrative category.

In his own words, he was “famous for a day”.0

You can watch the film here.

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