dear palestinian cinema admirers, i recently discovered a google spreadsheet compiling the list of palestinian cinema index on letterboxd. The spreadsheet has downloadable links to over 700 docs and films.
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"i didn’t know him. i thought i knew him. i never knew him before. i never knew him like this."
New poem up today, "cento for all the things we said when they realized they should have believed us" by @dispatchdena, with art by Kaya Joan.
Read: https://t.co/znUvgo9D2d
i did not expect one season of tv to change my life so drastically. oh heated rivalry, you have given me so much. see you in season 2 🙂↕️#heatedrivalry#hollanov
Finally got around to watching "Cutie and the Boxer" The life story of Ushio & Noriko Shinohara, both incredible artists. It was so open and raw, footage captured in real intense moments that made this a great watch. Not a fairytale by any means, but a breath of fresh air✨
No Other Land could have easily been produced by Basel Arda alone. It was his life, after all, and his footage. His family. His land. His story. But we all know that none—except us—would have given it the time of day, or believed it if they did. So the liberal zionist co-agent comes along to "give voice to the voiceless" as liberals like to say. The liberal zionist, who peddled the rape hoax for months, who couldn't say the word genocide, then equates the wholesale slaughter of half a million Palestinians with Hamas' singular military operation to capture Israelis in order get their own hostages back. The liberal hops on the back of Palestinian pain and rides that wave as he makes a name for himself, and money. He is the confident one speaking before an audience, while Basel, dignified and strong, is nervous, because state systems of supremacy produce internal, intangible personal realities, just as they produce material disparities. Basel and his family were generous and welcoming of Yuval, but Yuval has a long way to go before he is worthy of them. There can be no place in the world for zionism anymore, liberal or otherwise.
My heartfelt congratulations to Basel and his family.
Every day i log into this new app, I see a new book deal with someone (non-Palestinian) writing about Gaza as if it is already dead/destroyed, a moment in time & not a physical place with brave & brilliant people, who have been forced to resist total annihilation