Some Strings : found image & sound, 1901-2024 « the cinema of solidarity »

France | 2024 | 4 min | documentary "The cinema of solidarity" is one of the propositions that compose the Some Strings program. Some strings is rooted in that which stains the screens of history: in Palestine, where poet and teacher Refaat Alareer, like so many others beings, was targeted by Israeli strikes and killed along with seven other members of his family. His last poem, “If I Must Die”, written between earth and sky five weeks before his death, calls for the making of a kite with some strings. Some strings is the legacy of such call, as did each of his readers inherits it as well. The kite, now an object of resistance, and its strings, now in the hands of some one hundred artists, represent a diversity of perspectives on one of the darkest moments of the 21st century. Some strings is released as widely as possible, all over the world, in theaters as part of a pre-show program, in festivals, also in a row, in a wide variety of spaces, because everyone take it own piece of string. Initiatives around the world can be found at some-strings.org. Sarah Wood works with the found object, particularly still and moving images, as an act of reappropriation and re-examination. She primarily engages with documentary imagery to question the relationship between historical narrative and individual memory. Recently, she has focused on the meaning of the archive, especially the politics of memory.