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Scenes of the Occupation from Gaza
Palestine｜1973｜14 min
Director: Mustafa Abu Ali
Synopsis
A rare film by the legendary filmmaker Mustafa Abu Ali, one of the founders of the Palestine Film Unit, the first filmic arm of the Palestinian revolution. Shot by a French news team, the footage was edited by Mustafa in Lebanon to produce one of the earliest films on the occupied territory in Gaza. Scenes of the Occupation from Gaza employs experimental editing tech- niques to produce a cinematically and politically subversive film. The film won the prize as best film at the Damascus Film Festival in 1973 and was screened at multiple festivals. It was the only film produced by the Palestine Cinema Group, which in 1974 became the Palestine Cinema Institute.
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Cowboy
Egypt｜1973｜16 min
Director: Sami Al-Salamoni
Synopsis
Cowboy begins from American cinema, as an exposure of the country’s settler colonial structure and its ability to depict genocidal acts through camera framing. The film, directed by the renowned Egyptian film critic Sami Al-Salamoni, reflects his theoretical critique of Hollywood through heavily edited scenes and shots from mainstream motion pictures. Al-Salamoni manages to take the audience through the history of commercialized image production towards a transnational solidarity image production as a response.
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Kuneitra: Death of a City
United States, Palestine｜1974｜26 min
Director: Jim Cranmer
Synopsis
Kuneitra: Death of a City, directed by Jim Kranmer, was made by the American Peace Committee to document the UN-commissioned forensic investigation of the atrocities committed by the Israeli Army in the city of Kuneitra in the occupied Golan Heights. Shots of the remnants of destruction of religious sites, graveyards and homes interlace interviews that were made with the town residents and their recollections of what had happened.
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Jamila's Mirror
Palestine｜1993｜25 min
Director: Arab Loutfi
Synopsis
Jamila’s Mirror deals with the memories of Palestinian female guerilla fighters, currently in their forties, who were involved in military operations during their teen years.
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Home Movies Gaza
Palestine｜2013｜24 min
Director: Basma al-Sharif
Synopsis
Home Movies Gaza introduces us to the Gaza Strip as a microcosm for the failure of civilisation. In an attempt to describe the everyday of a place that struggles for the most basic of human rights, this video claims a perspective from within the domestic spaces of a territory that is complicated, derelict, and altogether impossible to separate from its political identity.
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Mahdi Amel in Gaza
Palestine｜2023｜14 min
Director: Tareq Rantisi & Mary Jirmanus Saba
Synopsis
Assassinated Lebanese intellectual Mahdi Amel — often dubbed “the Arab Gramsci” — famously said: “He who resists is never defeated.” What use is his thought to us today, and what is our responsibility as image makers to Gaza?
观影时间: OCT 11 - OCT 25, 2024
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