Join the Center for Palestine Studies for a panel celebrating the publication of Gaza on Screen (Duke, 2023) with a special screening of Arab and Tarzan Nasser’s film Gaza Mon Amour (2020).
Please note that advanced registration is required for this in-person event at Columbia’s Lenfest Center for the Arts.
LOCATION
Katharina Otto-Bernstein Screening Room
Lenfest Center for the Arts
615 W 129th Street
New York, NY 10027
ABOUT GAZA ON SCREEN (Duke, 2023)
Edited by Nadia Yaqub.
Gaza’s long association with resistance and humanitarian need has generated a complex and ever shifting range of visual material, comprising not just news reports and documentaries, but also essay, experimental, and fiction films, militant videos, and solidarity images. Contributors to Gaza on Screen, who include scholars and Gazan filmmakers, explore the practice, production, and impact of film and videos from and about the Gaza Strip. Conceptualizing screens—both large and small—as tools for mediation that are laden with power, the volume explores Gazan film and video in relation to humanitarianism and human rights, care, community, environment, mobility and confinement, and decolonization. The volume includes visual material ranging from solidarity broadcasts on Lebanese television, mid-twentieth-century British Pathé newsreels, and fiction films to breaking news, visuals of contemporary militant resistance, documentaries, and found footage films, arguing for a visual ecosystem in which differing types of film and video affect and inform each other. Throughout, Gaza on Screen demonstrates that screens shape and sustain relationships between Gaza and the world, and help to sustain the possibility of a different future.
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ABOUT GAZA MON AMOUR (2020)
Directed by Arab and Tarzan Nasser, 2020, 87 mins.
Gaza, today. Sixty-year-old fisherman Issa is secretly in love with Siham, a woman who works at the market with her daughter Leila. When he discovers an ancient phallic statue of Apollo in his fishing nets, Issa hides it, not knowing what to do with this mysterious and potent treasure. Yet deep inside, he feels that this discovery will change his life forever. Strangely, his confidence starts to grow and eventually he decides to approach Siham.
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PANELISTS
Nayrouz Abu Hatoum, Concordia University
Hadeel Assali, Columbia University
Helga Tawil Souri, New York University
Nadia Yaqub, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
INTRODUCTION
Nadia Abu El-Haj, Columbia University
Palestine Cuts is generously supported by Jeanne and Ken Levy-Church.