EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILM SCREENING

2023-06-16T18:30:00Z

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

YOUR FATHER WAS BORN 100 YEARS OLD, AND SO WAS THE NAKBA by Razan AL Salah Palestine, Lebanon | 2017 | 7 min | Fiction This doc-fiction is a (re)construction, a (re)collection of the memory of returning to Haifa. It is an imaginary memory of retuning to Haifa. Razan AlSalah is imagining her grandmother was able to return to Haifa when she was still alive, through Google Streetview, which today is the only way she could see Palestine, the only way Razan can see Palestine. PARADISO, XXXI, 108 by Kamal Aljafari Germany, Palestine I 2022 I 19 min “It’s going to be quite soundless, the roar of our aircraft is drowning everything else. We are running straight into the most gigantic display of soundless fireworks in the world, and here we go to drop our bombs”. Coming from Israeli military propaganda material from the 1960s and 1970s, Paradiso, XXI, 108 is (ironically) akin to a “cinematic self-portrait of men playing war”. THE RETURN OF OSIRIS by Essa Grayeb Egypt I 2019 I 14 min On June 9, 1967, the Egyptian president at the time, Gamal Abdel Nasser, appeared on television and radio to inform the Egyptian citizens of their country's defeat in the war. During the speech, he also announced his resignation. For many, Nasser's speech was the first hint of the full scope of the loss and the disillusionment with the pan-Arab vision he had led. The film weaves numerous stylistically divergent excerpts together, extracted from Egyptian movies and television series produced between 1976 and 2016; the found footage excerpts were edited to reconstruct Nasser's speech of resignation according to the original text by using elements appropriated from popular culture. IN VITRO by Larissa Sansour and Søren Lind Danemark, Royaume-Uni, Palestine I 2019 I 28 min In the aftermath of an eco-disaster, an abandoned nuclear reactor under the biblical town of Bethlehem has been converted into an enormous orchard. Using heirloom seeds collected in the final days before the apocalypse, a group of scientists are preparing to replant the soil above.