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.
The films in the PLO’s Cinema Institution archives were meant as records of a self-determined image of Palestinian reality until they went missing during the Israeli invasion of Beirut in 1982. In a “road movie” from Palestine to Jordan, Syria and Lebanon, director Azza El-Hassan follows the contradicting and confusing clues to the whereabouts of the lost archive. But, in her usual, inimitable way, she keeps finding people and places in the purest documentary style: finding myths, life stories, life lies – collecting the effects of defeat, loss, and pain. She even brings some humor to the tragedy of the situation with which she identifies and, at the same time, rejects.
- Year2004
- Runtime62 minutes
- LanguageArabic
- CountryPalestine
- DirectorAzza El-Hassan
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.
The films in the PLO’s Cinema Institution archives were meant as records of a self-determined image of Palestinian reality until they went missing during the Israeli invasion of Beirut in 1982. In a “road movie” from Palestine to Jordan, Syria and Lebanon, director Azza El-Hassan follows the contradicting and confusing clues to the whereabouts of the lost archive. But, in her usual, inimitable way, she keeps finding people and places in the purest documentary style: finding myths, life stories, life lies – collecting the effects of defeat, loss, and pain. She even brings some humor to the tragedy of the situation with which she identifies and, at the same time, rejects.
- Year2004
- Runtime62 minutes
- LanguageArabic
- CountryPalestine
- DirectorAzza El-Hassan