Many people first became aware of the Shatila refugee camp in Lebanon after the shocking and horrific Sabra-Shatila massacre that took place there in 1982. Located in Beirut's "belt of misery," the camp is home to 15,000 Palestinians and Lebanese who share a common experience of displacement, unemployment and poverty. Fifty years after the exile of their grandparents from Palestine, the children of Shatila attempt to come to terms with the reality of being refugees in a camp that has survived massacre, siege and starvation.
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The second, ¡Tchkung! Vs. The State, is a one hour tribute to the relationship between a band and their local police and fire departments in the mid-90's. Recommended more for the serious ¡Tchkung! fan than for the casual viewer, it features home movie style depictions of performances, backstage preparation, police intervention, and street chaos.
UntitledEvery Saturday, members of a group called Falun Gong gather in front of the Chinese consulate on 42nd street in New York City to protest and meditate. On this Saturday, there was a blizzard. They stayed the whole two hours anyway, unmoved by external forces. In the peaceful faces battered by wind and snow, a combination of superhuman resilience and human folly emerges, a mix of absurdity and heroism, eliciting an uncomfortable reaction: we admire the strength of conviction while being tempted to judge the whole thing as fanatical. But here the struggle against nature has taken over the political struggle. Available online until December 27th 2020.
UntitledRegisters the withdrawal of tradition past a surpassing disaster (the fifteen-year Lebanese war); produces completed crossword puzzles with subsisting blank spaces in a country of shattered shop signs; exhibits the rise in 1992-Beirut of a sublime architecture of bricks in a period where it appears Arabs are being driven to the Stone Age (Palestinians throwing stones at the Israeli army in the Occupied Territories, etc) and uses fiction to document the eruption of psychotic effects in and outside mental hospitals.
UntitledDecasia is composed entirely of decaying, nitrate-based archival footage which seems to melt, burn, drip and deteriorate before our very eyes. In his search for striking examples of emulsion deterioration, Morrison examined close to a thousand archive prints from numerous collections. But Decasia is no mere celebration of the psychedelic beauty of decay, for Morrison has deliberately chosen images which seem to push back against their own physical disintegration.
UntitledOn December 26, 2003, the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) deliberately shot at Gil Namati, a 21 year old Israeli protestor that demonstrated against the separation fence/wall. Gil was shot in both legs by two live bullets. The incident created a media storm and raised many question . What would have happened if the IDF didn't lie about the shooting of Gil Namati/ Would it have justified the actions taken by the security forces? Is there a difference between shooting a Jew and a non-Jew? This film is divided into three parts, the first part presents the investigation which was shown at the press conference and proved the IDF was lying about the reasons for the shooting, the second part criticizes the investigation itself and how the media reacted and portrayed the incident and the separation barrier, and the third part is a propaganda piece about the "danger" anarchism poses in Israel.
UntitledThe 'Cartoneros', an army of the shadows - more than 100,000 strong -who assemble each night to scavenge the city's street and rubbish dumps for cardboard to sell for a pittance. These people commute to their place of work like foraging animals, herding themselves onto the 'White Train' which rattles through the suburbs of Buenos Aires in the battered shells of carriages devoid of doors, windows, seating or lights.
UntitledGema Martín Muñoz, professora de Sociología del Mon Àrab a l'Universitat Autónoma de Madrid. Entre altres treballs, es autora del llibre "El Estado Árabe. Crisis de legitimidad y contestación islamista". (Bellaterra, 2000).
For after all, how do we know that 2 and 2 make four? or that the force of gravity works? or that the past is unchangeable? The doubts of Winston Smith (main character of George Orwell's novel 1984) and found footage from "Operation Iraqi Freedom" are the starting point for a meditation on the state of the human being.
UntitledEdward Said talks about the context within which the book "Orientalism" was conceived, its main themes and how its original thesis relates to the contemporary understanding of "the Orient." Said argues that the Western (especially American) understanding of the Middle East as a place full of villains and terrorists ruled by Islamic fundamentalism produces a deeply distorted image of the diversity and complexity of millions of Arab peoples.
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