According to Cinema Etemad, Alireza Davdenjad provided “Etemad” with a note about the characteristics of the minister of culture of the 14th government.
Explanation: On the occasion of the release of the film Masaib Shirin 2, which is the last relic of the Davdenjad father-son collaboration, we contacted Alireza Davdenjad as the director and asked him to have a conversation about this film, but he preferred to first answer the question that in his opinion these days In the media environment and among some questioners and his colleagues, it is suggested that he answer; We are publishing the text of this question and answer below and in the coming days we are waiting for him to answer the questions that we have raised about the movie Masaib Shirin 2.
In your opinion, art and cinema guilds should be involved in the selection of the minister of guidance and relevant officials, and in principle, such an official should deal more with taste, artistic and media trends, or should be more familiar with administrative management techniques and bureaucratic relations?
Certainly both; How is it possible for someone to become a manager of a place that he does not know and does not know about the history, issues and complexity of the internal problems there and does not know what the opportunities and threats are there? Only if this happens and we have seen many times, it has happened that the principle is based on dependence and not merit. Now a person has become the president who claims that his intention is to give field to a competent manager, and isn’t a competent manager someone who is familiar with his area of management and knows its problems and problems and has the knowledge, ability and solutions to find solutions and resolve them?
A minister and official who doesn’t listen to music, doesn’t know the difference between melody and chord, doesn’t read poetry, doesn’t have favorite poets, songwriters, composers, and singers, and doesn’t understand legends, stories, stories, and novels, and pays attention to drawing, painting, and graphics. not to show much and not recognize skill, taste and quality in visual arts, especially in handicrafts, and not to notice its repetition and decline in different parts of Iran, and not to worry about the gradual extinction of the generations of masters of these industries and the lack of transfer of their skills to the next generations and the absence of the art of architecture in the constructions and the disturbance in the architectural space of the capital and big cities and cities and villages and the pattern of homogenization of the constructions by builders and builders and the erasure of the native, local and national characteristics of the art of architecture From the capital to distant villages, he has not been bothered, and he has only heard of the theater, Ta’ziyeh, Ruhudzi, various shows and generations of writers, directors, and actors, and the reasons why our national media art system has given rhyme to its competitors. A regional and global loser does not know anything and artificiality in media and artistic works does not make much difference to their believability, and has not realized that without having a strong, respected and popular cinema, it is not possible to reach a believable, effective and inclusive media art system, and does not know that the distance Throwing between media and art with current life and people’s issues has no result other than distancing the audience from domestic media and art productions and finally leads to more acceptance of imported products and the eyes, ears, hearts and brains of the young and the old. This nation is more and more conquered by Turkish, Indian, Chinese, Korean, European and American products – which it has brought – and it does not consider this as a clear betrayal of the culture, art and civilization of this country, and finally, because a huge majority of sixty million The Iranian audience of mobile phones sitting at the feet of all kinds of monitors, televisions and satellite networks are customers of the black market and the waves of imported products, so don’t be saddened by the negation and rejection and isolation of the good-looking, expert and creative domestic forces that can maintain and prosper. and help the elevation of national cinema and raise the flag of Iran at the top of world festivals, he is not sad and does not struggle to bring them to the field, and basically things like research and education and their connection with the labor market are not important to him, and in his vision to The movement to produce content and communicate with tens of millions of domestic, regional and global Farsi-speaking audiences has not thought and does not have a plan or plan for these matters, and despite all these circumstances, he comes and reaches the position of the ministry or vice-chancellor of art and cinema, and then we say merit. Is it original and not dependent?!
Unless the plan is to continue dynamiting culture and promoting passivity and imitation and satellite reproductions and the fumes of the few and the unemployment and poverty of the many, so that in the end some groups will be moved from cinema to serialization for platforms and television, and the rest will be heartbroken and bankrupt. Give up theaters and sit down and watch that with tolerance and tolerance in the censorship of foreign films, they make room for importing and showing them globally at the same time in the capital and other cities of Iran… and finally the work of the platforms often – because of censorship or Self-censorship – to be dedicated to the reproduction of Jam TV films and series by domestic productive forces, and movie theaters should be mainly owned by Hollywood and Bollywood artists.
In fact, only the officials deserve trade union support who have a measured and persuasive answer to key questions by explaining and explaining their point of view, plan, vision and road map, and their belief in maintaining, promoting and elevating cinematographic productions and especially their commitment to “prevent the collapse of the professional cinema realm in favor of serialization for television or home viewing platforms” and answer the question of the coincidence of bankruptcy and quality reduction of Iranian cinema films with the opening and increasing development of cinema halls in Tehran and other cities. and follows a philosophy and program, and at the same time, to break the monopoly and build popular markets for home theater and actualize tens of millions of potential domestic and foreign audiences for Iranian cinema films, they should have unreserved support from institutions and trade cooperatives, and otherwise it is better that They should take, sew, and wear by themselves, and not expect support from the guilds, but expect evaluation and criticism and, if necessary, protest and confrontation.