مع حسن في غزة

With Hasan in Gaza
Kamal Aljafari
France, Palestine, Germany, Qatar
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With Hasan in Gaza
Synopsis

Cinema is capable of preserving the leaves on the trees, the wind and the tide, a child’s cry, Serge Daney used to say. Kamal Aljafari revisits the footage he filmed in Gaza in 2001 together with his friend Hassan. Those images preserve a trace of a life that has been crushed, yet life nonetheless, with bursts of spontaneous joy. The filmmaker does not need to accompany the images with any discourse: his home recordings speak to us with terrifying eloquence, because they preserve the force of an entire people — bodies and scenes of urban life that refuse to fade away. (PC)

Director biography

Kamal Aljafari
Kamal Aljafari

Born in Ramla, Palestine, in 1972, Kamal Aljafari tirelessly collects and preserves images. The memory of his family and that of the Palestinian people serve as the foundation of his filmography, a creative corpus that exemplifies like no other the struggle to safeguard an identity under constant siege and threat. For Aljafari, the personal and the collective are inseparable. His quest entails finding absences in order to ensure their existence and survival. The materiality of cinema is therefore an obsession for this artist, who, film after film also challenges conventional ways of representing the Palestinian-Israeli conflict by spanning an immense range of forms that flow seamlessly from documentary to essay, and always from innovative aesthetic perspectives. His films demonstrate that another narrative is indeed possible and that, more than anything else, cinema continues to be a powerful tool for liberation.

Sessions

May

Thursday 28
18:00 h
CINETECA. Sala Plató

Credits

Language
Arabic - Subtitles in spanish and english
Director
Kamal Aljafari
Production
Flavia Mazzarino, Kamal Aljafari
Cinematography
Kamal Aljafari
Editing
Kamal Aljafari
Sound
Kamal Aljafari
Music
Attila Faravelli, Simon Fisher Turner
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