- Screening room
Scenes of Erasure – Part I: Ruins
Kamal Aljafari, Miranda Pennell, Jananne Al-Ani
- Film
A Fidai Film
Kamal Aljafari
- Date and Time:
Sunday 17 May, 3–4.30pm
- Location:
- Minassa
A Fidai Film is an experimental and poignant counter-archive of a continuous history of appropriation defined by its director Aljafari as “the camera of the dispossessed”.
In the summer of 1982 the Israeli army invaded Beirut. During this time, it raided the Palestinian Research Center and looted its entire archive. The archive contained historical documents of Palestine, including a collection of still and moving images. Taking this as a premise, A Fidai Film explores the visual memory of this looting and appropriates images now in the hands of Israeli archives.
Doors open at 2.30pm; event start at 3pm and finishes at 4.30pm.