And Yet My Mask Is Powerful
A richly layered film in which a group of Palestinian youth wear 3D-printed copies of Neolithic masks on their way to the sites of destroyed Palestinian villages in Israel. The masks become a counterpoint, a marker of speculative possibility linking past to future, countering the dominant imagery of violence.
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Film details
- Country of production
- Palestine
- Year
- 2016
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2017
- Length
- 8'
- Medium/Format
- File
