Via Dolorosa

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. A film by Oraib Toukan Oraib Toukan is an interdisciplinary artist, educator and scholar born in 1977 in Boston, USA, and raised in Amman, Jordan. She is currently a EUME fellow at the Forum Transregionale Studien in Berlin and was a Clarendon scholar at the University of Oxford, Ruskin School of Art, where she completed her PhD in 2019. She is the author of the book “Sundry Modernism: Materials for a Study of Palestinian Modernism” (2017) and the essay-films “Via Dolorosa” (2021), “Offing” (2021), and “When Things Occur” (2017), among others. Until 2015 she served as head of the Arts division and Media Studies program at Al-Quds Bard College, Palestine. Her works have been shown at KW Institute for Contemporary Art and Akademie der Künste in Berlin, CCA Glasgow, Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, Asia Pacific Triennial in Australia, Istanbul Biennial, and Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie at Heidelberger Kunstverein.