Disarming Design together with United Screens for Palestine invite you for an evening of collective gathering around poems, films and food in support of Palestine. The evening will start with a collective reading session led by Sulaiman Saleh, researcher and coordinator for Disarming Design. Together with him, you will be invited to read a selection of texts from Palestinian writers and poets. This will be followed by a film screening selected by United Screens for Palestine in conversation with Reem Shilleh and Omar Jabary Salamanca.
Scenes of Occupation from Gaza
Mustafa Abu Ali, 1973, 13’
In Arabic with English subtitles
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 of the Occupation from Gaza employs experimental editing techniques to produce a cinematically and politically subversive film. The film won the prize as best film at the Damascus Film Festival in 1973 and was screened at multiple festivals. It was the only film produced by the Palestine Cinema Group, which in 1974 became the Palestine Cinema Institute.
Born in 1940 in Maliha, Palestine, director and producer Mustafa Abu Ali is considered one of the founders of Palestinian cinema. In 1967-1968, after studying cinema in London, he founded with filmmakers Hany Jawhariyya and Sulafa Jadallah, under the aegis of Fatah, a film unit in Amman, Jordan. In 1973, Mustafa Abu Ali contributed to the creation of the “Palestinian Cinema Group”, intended to promote the development of a Palestinian cinema that supports the national resistance. Related to the revolutionary cinema movement, Mustafa Abu Ali has directed more than thirty films throughout his career.
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