Pre-opening FCP Marseille 2024 - Focus "PALESTINE IN THE EYE"- Short films - Screening & Discussion

2024-05-25T18:00:00Z

Bar Cinéma Videodrome 2, 49 Cours Julien, 13006 Marseille, France

Preceded by a discussion with Khadijeh Habashneh (researcher, director, former head of the Palestinian Film Archive) For Cultural Purposes Only by Sarah Wood United Kingdom | 2009 | 8 min | Experimental “For Cultural Purposes Only” is an experimental film essay investigating the cultural importance of cinema. In an age dominated by the moving image, what would it feel like to never see an image of the place that you came from? The Palestinian Film Archive contained over 100 films showing the daily life and struggle of the Palestinian people. It was lost in the Israeli siege of Beirut in 1982. Here interviewees describe from memory key moments from the history of Palestinian cinema. These scenes are drawn and animated. Where film survives, the artist’s impressions are corroborated. This is a film about reconstruction and the idea that cinema is an expression of cultural identity - that cinema fuels memory. They Do Not Exist by Mustafa Abu Ali Palestine | 1974 | 25 min | Documentary Life in the Nabatieh refugee camp in southern Lebanon, accompanied in voice-over by a letter written to a fedayeen. A response to Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir, who declared that the Palestinian people did not exist. Via Dolorosa de Oraib Toukan Palestine, United States | 2021 | 21 min | Experimental Footage shot by the late photographer and cinematographer, Hani Jawharieh, slowed-down, studied, and re-assembled with material from where it was found—piles of film reels discarded by former Soviet cultural centers in Amman, Jordan, accompanied with commentary by literary and film scholar Nadia Yaqub. Via Dolorosa (Latin for the Arabic 'Way of Suffering') is itself a processional route that Jawharieh filmed in his birth city of Jerusalem.