Projection - Eye On Palestine Arts and Film Festival - Suspended Times + Amira Hass
Projection - Eye On Palestine Arts and Film Festival - Suspended Times + Amira Hass
Eye On Palestine Arts and Film Festival | Suspended Times + Talk with Omar Jabary Salamanca in discussion with Amira Hass
Suspended Times is a film programme comprised of nine short films. It is a 'montage' of impressions, reflections and products of imagination by nine filmmakers and artists. It is a montage of confined spaces, physical and mental; handshakes; journeys; sound, and time. The films look back at the 20 years that followed the signing of the Oslo Agreement. The programme lays out a spectrum of films representational on many levels. On one hand, they reflect the geographical dispersal and fragmentation of Palestinians by the various storylines presented in the films. On the other they reflect the diversity of consequences of the Agreement on the various aspects of Palestinians' and Palestine's being that followed it. And then there is the visual treatment employed by the filmmakers in the films. They vary in form and language, and they too are representational of visual languages that exist two decades after the signing of the Oslo Agreement.
The authors of the films are Alaa Al Ali, Arab and Tarzan Nasser, Amin Nayfeh, Asem Naser, Asma Ghanem, Ayman Azraq, Mahdi Fleifel, Muhannad Salahat and Yazan Khalili. The programme and the films were produced by Idioms Film in collaboration with Rosa Luxemburg Stifting- Regional Office Palestine and were selected as part of an open call in late summer 2013.
Amira Hass is an Israeli journalist (Haaretz correspondent) and publicist who has been writing about the daily life in the Palestinian Territories for decades. She lives in the Territories and also has lived in Gaza for some time. Hass' critical work forms a very important and welcome addition to the often non-critical way the Israeli media reports on the Occupied Territories. She has won many awards during her career, such as the Prize for Press Freedom of Reporters without Borders and the Lifetime Achievement Award of the International Women's Media Foundation. In her lecture Hass will speak about Israeli activism against the occupation.
Omar Jabary Salamanca is concluding a doctoral dissertation at the Middle East and North Africa Research Group at Ghent University. His research lies at the intersection of urban studies, settler colonialism, political economy and Palestinian studies. He is interested in the geopolitics of aid and development, critical geography, politics of violence, and geographies of resistance and solidarity in the Middle East and beyond. Omar is a founder and active member of the program collective for the Eye on Palestine Arts and Film Festival. In 2014 he will join the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies (MESAAS) at Columbia University as a Marie Curie Post-Doctoral Fellow.
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