- Cinema
- June 1st, 2017
OPEN SCREEN
Come on down and share your film with the feisty EPFC audience!
Come on down and share your film with the feisty EPFC audience!
The Native and the Refugee is a multimedia research project that investigates the space of Native reservations in the United States and Palestinian refugee camps in the Middle East. In connecting these two spaces and their struggles, the goals of the project are then to understand the centrality of the question of land and territory for any conception of autonomy; to look at the camp as an “extra-national” space with all the contradictions entailed and to meet with those getting organized politically in these places, and to understand their communal concerns.
What does it mean to make a film with a non-Western audience in mind? What does it mean for a film to actually be a conduit of communication between peoples rather than an object for an imagined spectator? What is the liberatory value of treating film as an instrument of pedagogy rather than an end in and of itself?
The theme of May is “Stateless” and explores the works of diaspora Syrian and Palestinian artists and their stories. Today we look at two films that highlight what life is like in the Gaza Strip…especially for those families trying to make a living from the sea.
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The theme of Marvelous Movie Mondays for May is “Stateless” and explores the works of diaspora Syrian and Palestinian artists and their stories. A Space Exodus quirkily sets up an adapted stretch of Stanley Kubrick’s Space Odyssey in a Middle Eastern political context.
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The Marvelous Movie Mondays theme for May is “Stateless.” Curator Roger Hill: “This incredibly personal and moving documentary brings the audience into Aleppo and the life of the filmmaker [Issa Touma].”
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