Not political, but strictly an anti-political documentary. No film since Peter Watkins' Punishment Park has left me with such intense rage, not only that but it is too, one of the countless times my disbelief in "All Art is Political" bullshit has been further strengthened. The core function of art can either be an absolute escape-point from the treacheries of the world, or it can be, purely, an act of resistance and defiance against politics. When one says "fuck art" (Fluxus Collective and The Gerogerigegege), it is directly calling out what has been defiled beyond recognition by didacticism and dishonesty. In the context of this film, endless points can be made indefinitely, though, are better avoided in order to resist succumbing to the abysmal bowels of politics in the process. "Constitutional ideologies are never compatible with the true essence of the left": more than any "anti-political" movement around the world, the Chinese Sixth Generation has continued to carve it onto stone; concisely, blowing out the traps of sweet-word-politics to the horizon. Any trace of ulterior motives are completely absent on Petition; rather this pure resistance encapsuled in pure honesty stands tall in spite of the besieging evil.

• Written on 25 Jun 2020