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URL:https://www.arabamerica.com/events/the-void-project/
SUMMARY:THE VOID PROJECT
DESCRIPTION:Filmmaker Azza El-Hassan founded the Void Project in 2018 to ex
 plore the presence and absence of visual archives in wartime narratives. T
 he project focuses on restoring and reimagining existing and lost films. T
 he examples in this series focus specifically on visualizing Palestine. To
  learn more about the Void Project\, visit https://www.thevoidproject.org/
 .\n\nJERUSALEM\, FLOWER OF ALL CITIES\n\n(1969\, DCP\, 7m) dir Ali Siam. A
  harmonious picture of Palestinian civil life is disturbed by the Israeli 
 army’s occupation of the city following the 1967 war with Israel. Set to
  the sound track “The Flower of all Cities”\, a famous song by Fairouz
 \, the film retains contemporary relevance.\n\nJerusalem\, Flower of All C
 ities was restored in 2017 by Azza El-Hassan\, with the support of Creativ
 e Interruptions AHRC\n\nPALESTINE IN THE EYE\n\n(1977\, DCP\, 28m) dir Mus
 tafa Abu Ali. 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 “wo
 rkers\,” and we see this in the film titles\, which collectively list th
 e names of all those who participated as a non-hierarchical collective. Th
 rough this reflection on Jawhariyyeh\, we are offered an understanding of 
 the workings of the Palestine Film Unit and its international connections.
 \n\nPalestine in the Eye was restored in 2017 by Azza El-Hassan\, with the
  support of Creative Interruptions AHRC.\n\n&nbsp\;\n\nTHE MAKING OF A REV
 OLUTIONARY FILM aka THE PLACE 2\n\n(2019\, DCP\, 7m) dir Azza El-Hassan. F
 rom the personal photo album of Palestinian photographer and cinematograph
 er Hani Jawhariyyeh\, director Azza El-Hassan reconstructs the last five m
 inutes of Jawhariyyeh’s life\, who was killed while filming a battle in 
 the mountains in Lebanon. The five minutes were featured in Palestine in t
 he Eye (1977)\, a film made by the Palestinian Cinema Institute to commemo
 rate the life of one of its founders. Yet\, forty two years later\, what m
 otivates these images takes on a different turn.\n\n&nbsp\;\n\nKINGS AND E
 XTRAS: DIGGING FOR A PALESTINIAN IMAGE\n\n(2004\, DCP\, 62m) dir Azza El-H
 assan. 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 l
 ost archive. But\, in her usual\, inimitable way\, she keeps finding peopl
 e and places in the purest documentary style: finding myths\, life stories
 \, life lies – collecting the effects of defeat\, loss\, and pain. She e
 ven brings some humor to the tragedy of the situation with which she ident
 ifies and\, at the same time\, rejects.
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CATEGORIES:Arab American,Arab American achievements,Arab Art,Arab
 Cinema,Arab Film,Arab Media,Arab tale,Palestinian art,Palestinian
 History,Palestinian Identity,Palestinian liberation,Palestinian Stories
LOCATION:The Trylon Cinema\, 2820 E 33rd St\, Minneapolis\, MN\, 55406\, Un
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