A crash course in the cinematic representation of Palestine over the past forty years. Shilleh takes us on a historical journey through Palestine in film: from militant filmmaking during the Palestinian revolutionary period (1968-82), to the post-Oslo period (1993 to the present). Her montage consists of sequenced fragments from films by Palestinian makers and those sympathetic to the Palestinian cause such as the Palestinian Film Unit, Johan van der Keuken, Nils Vest, Basma Alsharif, Koji Wakamatsu and Adachi Masao, Mahdi Fleifel and Michel Khleifi. The film provides an incomplete dictionary of the grammar of the moving image produced in and about Palestine, while highlighting its most recurrent visual tropes: the classroom, tight alleyways of refugee camps, traveling shots of the landscape, or the Fedayeen in the open field. All of these are used strategically to make an unseen people visible.
Special screening followed by a panel discussion with representatives of the new generation of Palestinian filmmakers and video artists.
