Entertainment · Film · 14 hrs ago

Palestinian filmmaker turns suppressed archive footage into a collage film

Palestinian filmmaker Kamal Aljafari has made a collage film from archival footage about Palestinian history.

Much of the material came from the Palestine Research Centre in Beirut, whose archive Israeli forces seized in 1982 during the Lebanese civil war.

Most of the archive is believed to remain in the hands of the Israeli army.

The film brings together images from different periods rather than telling events in chronological order.

It draws parallels between violence against Palestinians under British rule and later violence by Israeli forces.

Aljafari covers pejorative captions added by Israeli authorities with red paint and adds lines from Palestinian poets.

The film uses these choices to challenge historical erasure and give the images a different context.

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Guardian · 14 hrs ago