Perpetual Recurrences
Perpetual Recurrences

Storyline

This film programme-which is, rather, a montage-exhibits a collection of scenes that gather around each other to form sequences. They do this dictated by repetitive occurrences, be that location, political discourse, mise-en-scène, objects, and so on. From the flashing image or sound, to the classroom, the militant in an open field delivering a speech with a tree somewhere in sight, young women seated on a floor discussing revolutionary politics, and to travelling shots in the tight alleyways of refugee camps and from inside cars moving through streets and checkpoints, they are plucked out from their heavily politicized filmic contexts, form and content-wise. Then, they are placed in sequences and screened to observe the political panoply of the moving image produced in and about Palestine. The fragments were extracted from a number of films and videos created over the last four decades about Palestine, tracking repetition in works from militant filmmaking during the Palestinian revolutionary period 1968-82, post-Oslo, and more contemporary films and videos. Some of the authors, to name a few, include Nils Vest, Basma Alsharif, Koji Wakamatsu and Masao Adachi, Mahdi Fleifel, and Michel Khleifi.
Films of Palestine
Creadits - Data sources: Palestine Film Index Twitter
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