memory/film

Documentary | 5m

From the personal photo album of Palestinian photographer and cinematographer, Hani Jawherieh, El Hassan reconstructs the last five minutes of Hani Jawherieh’s life, who was killed while filming in 1976. The last five minutes in Jawherieh’s life which he captured on film were featured in Palestine in the Eye (1977) a film made by the Palestine Film Institute to commemorate the life of one of it’s founders. In A Remake of a Revolutionary Film, these last five minutes in Jawherieh’s life are revisited and reconstructed; forty-two years later, following his death.

Director: Azza El Hassan

Documentary | 58m

Four decades of filmmaking in and about Palestine come together in this montage by Reem Shilleh. Rather than curating a program of entire films, she brings together a selection of scenes in this documentary. It tracks repetition in films by militant filmmakers from the Palestinian revolutionary period 1968–82 and in more contemporary films, including work by Basma Alsharif, Masao Adachi & Koji Wakamatsu, Johan van der Keuken, and Michel Khleifi, among others.

Director: Reem Shilleh