The Second Intifada heralded a particularly fresh, urgent and experimental approach to filmmaking, in tune with the uprisings to which they contributed. Working at a distance from both the main political organizations and, often, the aesthetic insistences of Global Northern art cinema funding, filmmakers took advantage of accessible technologies to forge new notions of freedom. The prolific body of work from this period does not just defiantly catalogue heightened colonial aggressions and appropriations, it does so with a wit and eclecticism of approach that touched diverse audiences at home and internationally.
Featuring works by Ayreen Anastas, Nahed Awwad, Enas I. Al-Muthaffar, Annemarie Jacir, and Larissa Sansour
Curated by Kay Dickinson
Going for a Ride? (2003)
Arabic with English Subtitles
Documenting the Art Installation “Going for a Ride?” made by the Palestinian Artist Vera Tamari.
The installation is a statement on the aggressive and deliberate crushing of hundreds of privately-owned cars by Israeli tanks in Ramallah and El-Bireh during the military incursions in the two towns in 2002. It focuses on crushed cars because of the powerful meaning cars usually carry: freedom, the open road, travel and movement.
In the film, the cars are brought to life again by searching into the memories of those who rode them.
About the Filmmaker
Nahed Awwad is a Palestinian independent filmmaker and a film curator; based in Berlin. She has been working in Film and Television since 1997. She participated in several professional training in Canada, Qatar, and Belgium. In 2004 she got her film diploma from the European film college in Denmark.
She released eight documentary films between experimental, short and feature length.
Awwad’s films were screened at various international film festivals, to mention few; HotDocs film festival, Canada 2013, “one world” Human right film festival in Prague, 2013, Vision du Reel Film Festival, Nyon, Switzerland in 2005 and 2008 and the Cannes Film Festival in 2008 (Cinema Sud). In 2009 she was granted the International Trailblazer Tribute -Middle East Trailblazer in MIPDOC.
- Year2003
- Runtime15 minutes
- LanguageArabic
- CountryPalestine
- DirectorNahed Awwad
- ScreenwriterNahed Awwad
- CastNahed Awwad
The Second Intifada heralded a particularly fresh, urgent and experimental approach to filmmaking, in tune with the uprisings to which they contributed. Working at a distance from both the main political organizations and, often, the aesthetic insistences of Global Northern art cinema funding, filmmakers took advantage of accessible technologies to forge new notions of freedom. The prolific body of work from this period does not just defiantly catalogue heightened colonial aggressions and appropriations, it does so with a wit and eclecticism of approach that touched diverse audiences at home and internationally.
Featuring works by Ayreen Anastas, Nahed Awwad, Enas I. Al-Muthaffar, Annemarie Jacir, and Larissa Sansour
Curated by Kay Dickinson
Going for a Ride? (2003)
Arabic with English Subtitles
Documenting the Art Installation “Going for a Ride?” made by the Palestinian Artist Vera Tamari.
The installation is a statement on the aggressive and deliberate crushing of hundreds of privately-owned cars by Israeli tanks in Ramallah and El-Bireh during the military incursions in the two towns in 2002. It focuses on crushed cars because of the powerful meaning cars usually carry: freedom, the open road, travel and movement.
In the film, the cars are brought to life again by searching into the memories of those who rode them.
About the Filmmaker
Nahed Awwad is a Palestinian independent filmmaker and a film curator; based in Berlin. She has been working in Film and Television since 1997. She participated in several professional training in Canada, Qatar, and Belgium. In 2004 she got her film diploma from the European film college in Denmark.
She released eight documentary films between experimental, short and feature length.
Awwad’s films were screened at various international film festivals, to mention few; HotDocs film festival, Canada 2013, “one world” Human right film festival in Prague, 2013, Vision du Reel Film Festival, Nyon, Switzerland in 2005 and 2008 and the Cannes Film Festival in 2008 (Cinema Sud). In 2009 she was granted the International Trailblazer Tribute -Middle East Trailblazer in MIPDOC.
- Year2003
- Runtime15 minutes
- LanguageArabic
- CountryPalestine
- DirectorNahed Awwad
- ScreenwriterNahed Awwad
- CastNahed Awwad