Controversy
Wolstencroft is known for his controversial opinions, writings and events that date back to theme nights during the early days of his Hellfire Club and even screenings of his and Mark Savage's films in the 1980s at Super 8 film groups. He is interested in many progressive and controversial ideas some of which are a new vision of a genre driven Australian cinema and what to do in reaction to the ongoing Australian cinema crisis, his interest in politics and issues of social discourse, his interest in Free Speech (an example of which are: the attempted screening of a David Irving documentary, at MUFF in 2003; a screening of Larry Clark film Ken Park; and his championing of gay and straight adult erotic cinema, again, at MUFF, his successful public disobedience screening of L.A. Zombie in 2010, etc.), his writings on politics, art and society on his blog.
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Famous quotes containing the word controversy:
“And therefore, as when there is a controversy in an account, the parties must by their own accord, set up for right Reason, the Reason of some Arbitrator, or Judge, to whose sentence, they will both stand, or their controversy must either come to blows, or be undecided, for want of a right Reason constituted by Nature; so is it also in all debates of what kind soever.”
—Thomas Hobbes (1579–1688)
“Ours was a highly activist administration, with a lot of controversy involved ... but I’m not sure that it would be inconsistent with my own political nature to do it differently if I had it to do all over again.”
—Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.)