In May we present The Void Project by Palestinian filmmaker Azza El Hassan. Founded in 2018, The Void Project explores the presence and absence of visual archives as a discourse in wartime narrative formation.The project focuses on restoring and reimagining existing and lost films. The selection in this series focus specifically on visualizing Palestine. Jerusalem Flower of All Cities and Palestine in the Eye, two Palestinian films restored by The Void Project and The Making of a Revolutionary Film aka The Place 2 as well as Kings and Extras: Digging for a Palestinian Image, films by El Hassan herself, will screen in-person on May 24, 2023 at 7pm at Trylon Cinema and online between May 25-28.
Palestine in the Eye chronicles the profound impact of Hani Jawhariyyeh’s death on the PLO Film Unit. The film reflects on his life through interviews with family, colleagues, and his own cinematography, including the moment of his death while filming a battle for the Unit in 1976. Although the film has later been attributed to Mustafa Abu Ali, the Unit’s method of work was to describe everyone as a collective of “workers,” and we see this in the film titles, which collectively list the names of all those who participated as a non-hierarchical collective. Through this reflection on Jawhariyyeh, we are offered an understanding of the workings of the Palestine Film Unit and its international connections.
Palestine in the Eye was restored in 2017 by Azza El-Hassan, with the support of Creative Interruptions AHRC.
- Year1977
- Runtime28 minutes
- LanguageArabic
- CountryPalestine, Lebanon
- DirectorMustafa Abu Ali
In May we present The Void Project by Palestinian filmmaker Azza El Hassan. Founded in 2018, The Void Project explores the presence and absence of visual archives as a discourse in wartime narrative formation.The project focuses on restoring and reimagining existing and lost films. The selection in this series focus specifically on visualizing Palestine. Jerusalem Flower of All Cities and Palestine in the Eye, two Palestinian films restored by The Void Project and The Making of a Revolutionary Film aka The Place 2 as well as Kings and Extras: Digging for a Palestinian Image, films by El Hassan herself, will screen in-person on May 24, 2023 at 7pm at Trylon Cinema and online between May 25-28.
Palestine in the Eye chronicles the profound impact of Hani Jawhariyyeh’s death on the PLO Film Unit. The film reflects on his life through interviews with family, colleagues, and his own cinematography, including the moment of his death while filming a battle for the Unit in 1976. Although the film has later been attributed to Mustafa Abu Ali, the Unit’s method of work was to describe everyone as a collective of “workers,” and we see this in the film titles, which collectively list the names of all those who participated as a non-hierarchical collective. Through this reflection on Jawhariyyeh, we are offered an understanding of the workings of the Palestine Film Unit and its international connections.
Palestine in the Eye was restored in 2017 by Azza El-Hassan, with the support of Creative Interruptions AHRC.
- Year1977
- Runtime28 minutes
- LanguageArabic
- CountryPalestine, Lebanon
- DirectorMustafa Abu Ali