Orson Wells

Ljubljana – A screening of Charlie Chaplin’s The Great Dictator on Monday evening will lift the curtain on a series of events organised at the Museum Plaza on Metelkova Street that will include mini festivals of short film and videos, and debates about the present and future of print media.

As opposed to Graham Greene?s 1955 novella ?Loser Takes All,? in Turkey, six decades later, it appears that the ?winner loses all.? On the night of June 7, the winners will win again. All the same, as always, they will be tense ? probably even tenser than before. They will cheer victoriously but they will look pensive and unhappy.

Orson Wells was at least partly right when he said: “Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in the Senate.” Unfortunately, we don’t yet have a better instrument for democracy than the ballot box.