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PALESTINE TRILOGY: 2006, 75 MIN
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All three videos (Deir Yassin Remembered, Even in the Desert, A Hot
Sandfilled Wind) represent activists: Palestinians, Israelis and
Internationals who work together in various groups and projects that
attempt to address the historic and contemporary repercussions of
Israel’s occupation and colonization of land. These are but a few of
the many activists who work, and who are not often represented in
mainstream media images of the conflicts in Israel and Palestine.
In
these video works activists address the significance of the Nakba (the
Palestinian disaster of 1948); they work at developing mutual
relationships between Palestinians and Israelis; they provide a
witnessing presence in sites of terror and displacement; they function
as oppositional voices in Israel; and they provide small and sometimes
only symbolic relief. Mostly they oppose the dominant myths that defend
Israel’s occupation of Palestinian land and lives. They attest to the
unjust reality of displacement, of walls, and of constant surveillance
on families and indigenous communities. At the same time, mutual
co-existence points to the possibilities of a different reality and a
hope that the ‘sounds of peace’ may predominate.
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