Selma Blair Channels the Fallout From Her Islamophobic Comments Into a Film About Antisemitism
More than two years after her Islamophobic comments, Selma Blair is making a documentary about antisemitism. Deadline reports that she announced the project, titled Hineni (Here I Am), on Thursday at the ADL's State of the Arts Reception in New York City, and frames it as her channeling the fallout from those comments into a film about a different form of hate speech entirely. The venue is the detail that lingers: an Anti-Defamation League arts reception rather than a festival stage or a studio announcement. Penance, a change of subject, or simply the documentary she wanted to make — the announcement doesn't settle which, and the film itself may or may not.
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Where you announce a film is part of the film's meaning. An ADL reception is a very specific room, and choosing it does some of the arguing for her.
Or the room just tells you who the film is for. Documentaries about antisemitism have a natural constituency, and that's where it gathers — the setting may be targeting rather than testimony.