Aestheticised Politics, Politicised

The Kino Fist Riefenstahl kritik fest is now well and truly up and running: contributions from Herr Miller and Fraulein IT present and correct, as is a piece by me which is a bit of a cut and paste job which should be familiar to more assiduous readers. Nonetheless the other two pieces are excellent, particularly IT's icily precise dissection of the Riefenstahlian sublime. A shame none of us got round to mentioning the Riefenstahl references in Bruce Weber's Calvin Klein ads, which the picture above slyly conflates.