Contact information
Name:
Nandini Sikand
Phone:
610-330-3049
Email:
sikandn@lafayette.edu
When:
Wednesday, March 20, 2024 - 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Where:
Landis Cinema - Buck Hall - 219 N. 3rd Street
Presenter:
Nandini Sikand & Drew Swedberg
Price:
Free
Three short films:
Scenes of the Occupation from Gaza (13m), Mustafa Abu Ali (1973)
A rare film by the legendary filmmaker Mustafa Abu Ali, one of the founders of the Palestine Film Unit. Shot by a French news team, the footage was edited by Mustafa in Lebanon to produce one of the earliest films on the occupied territory in Gaza.
Paradisso, XXXI, 108 (18m), Kamal Aljafari (2022)
As chilling as it is absurd, Kamal Aljafari’s Paradiso repurposes found footage from Israeli military propaganda and turns it into a fictional drama of men playing at war.
Your Father was Born 100 Years Old, and So Was the Nakba (7m), Razan AlSalah (2017)
This doc-fiction is a (re)construction, a (re)collection of the memory of returning 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.
Co-sponsored by: Africana Studies, Asian Studies, Anthropology & Sociology, Middle East Studies Association, Pards for Palestine, Lafayette College Libraries
Sponsored by:
Film and Media Studies