Ibrahim Shaddad
, 1964
, 41 min
Ibrahim Shaddad’s graduation film Jagdpartie (Hunting Party), which he shot at the Deutsche Hochschule für Filmkunst Potsdam-Babelsberg (now: Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF), is a treatise on racism. Filmed in a forest in Brandenburg, it takes on a Western point of view to depict a hunt for a Black man.
Eltayeb Mahdi
, 1989
, 16 min
In Al Mahatta (The Station), Eltayeb Mahdi shows encounters at one of the large crossroads between the capital Khartoum in the center of Sudan and Port Sudan on the Red Sea in the late 1980s. Relying on intersecting scenes of travelers who wait long hours for transportation or who cross the desert on foot alongside…
, 1985
, 32 min
Al Habil (The Rope) is a surrealist film shot with 16mm real that documents two blind men making their way through the desert accompanied by a donkey. Connected by a rope, at times it is the two men who direct the donkey, and at others, it is the donkey who leads the men through the…
Mary Jirmanus Saba, Tareq Rantisi
, 2023
, 14 min
Synopsis:Assassinated Lebanese intellectual Mahdi Amel — often dubbed “the Arab Gramsci” — famously said: “He who resists is never defeated.” What use is his thought to us today, and what is our responsibility as image makers to Gaza?
Basma al-Sharif
, 2013
, 24 min
Synopsis:Home Movies Gaza introduces us to the Gaza Strip as a microcosm for the failure of civilisation. In an attempt to describe the everyday of a place that struggles for the most basic of human rights, this video claims a perspective from within the domestic spaces of a territory that is complicated, derelict, and altogether…
Arab Loutfi
, 1993
, 25 min
Synopsis:Jamila’s Mirror deals with the memories of Palestinian female guerilla fighters, currently in their forties, who were involved in military operations during their teen years.
, 1974
, 26 min
Kuneitra: Death of a City was made by the American Peace Committee to document the UN-commissioned forensic investigation of the atrocities committed by the Israeli Army in the city of Kuneitra in the occupied Golan Heights. Shots of the remnants of destruction of religious sites, graveyards and homes interlace interviews that were made with the town…
Sami Al Salamoni
, 1973
Synopsis:Cowboy begins from American cinema, as an exposure of the country’s settler colonial structure and its ability to depict genocidal acts through camera framing. The film, directed by the renowned Egyptian film critic Sami Al-Salamoni, reflects his theoretical critique of Hollywood through heavily edited scenes and shots from mainstream motion pictures. Al-Salamoni manages to take the…
Mustafa Abu Ali
, 13.43 min
Synopsis:A rare film by the legendary filmmaker Mustafa Abu Ali, one of the founders of the Palestine Film Unit, the first filmic arm of the Palestinian revolution. Shot by a French news team, the footage was edited by Mustafa in Lebanon to produce one of the earliest films on the occupied territory in Gaza. Scenes…
Coleman Collins
, 2024
, 8 min
Primarily derived from 3D scans of objects, and with a particular focus on digital replicas of West African architectural sites, Specular fiction is a short, speculative narrative video that traces the complex relationships between seemingly dichotomous terms: original and copy; object and image; real and virtual space. In an imagined future of indeterminate distance, the objects of…
