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Scenes of the Occupation from Gaza 1973 Mustafa Abu Ali.
مشاهد من الاحتلال في غزة
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 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 came to the Palestine Cinema Institute.
Notes:
This publication is an extended inventory of this film. It is one of twenty inventories of 16 mm film reels that constitute a collection kept and safeguarded by members of a Japanese Palestine solidarity group in Tokyo. The documentation and digitisation process was made by CRAMP (Centre for Research of Audiovisual Memory Practices) for the Subversive Film research project Tokyo Reels, 2022.
This version of the film was restored thanks to the support of documenta fifteen, Sharjah Art Foundation and KASK – School of Arts Gent.
Director: Mustafa Abu Ali
Cast: Issam Sakhnini, Rasmi Abu Ali (Narrators). Qanun Performance: George Abyad, Céline Bodson
Editing: Emile Bahri
Co-Production: Japanese Palestine solidarity group
Supported by: CRAMP (Centre for Research of Audiovisual Memory Practices)
Section: Special Screenings
Duration: 13
Release: 1973
Country: Occupied Palestine
Type: Experimental Short Documentary
Language: Arabic
Format: Digital, Color | W/B
Subtitles: English
Source: youtube.com/watch?v=1JlIwmnYnlE
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Scenes of the Occupation from Gaza 1973 Mustafa Abu Ali.
مشاهد من الاحتلال في غزة
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 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 came to the Palestine Cinema Institute.
Notes:
This publication is an extended inventory of this film. It is one of twenty inventories of 16 mm film reels that constitute a collection kept and safeguarded by members of a Japanese Palestine solidarity group in Tokyo. The documentation and digitisation process was made by CRAMP (Centre for Research of Audiovisual Memory Practices) for the Subversive Film research project Tokyo Reels, 2022.
This version of the film was restored thanks to the support of documenta fifteen, Sharjah Art Foundation and KASK – School of Arts Gent.
Director: Mustafa Abu Ali
Cast: Issam Sakhnini, Rasmi Abu Ali (Narrators). Qanun Performance: George Abyad, Céline Bodson
Editing: Emile Bahri
Co-Production: Japanese Palestine solidarity group
Supported by: CRAMP (Centre for Research of Audiovisual Memory Practices)
Section: Special Screenings
Duration: 13
Release: 1973
Country: Occupied Palestine
Type: Experimental Short Documentary
Language: Arabic
Format: Digital, Color | W/B
Subtitles: English
Source: youtube.com/watch?v=1JlIwmnYnlE
^^^
Note: This work, as all videos on Palestine Diary's Channel, is for educational and non commercial purposes only. For the same purposes you can copy and re upload, but please give a proper attribution and credits.
#FreePalestine #EndIsraeliOccupation #EndZionism #ZionismIsNazism #EndIsraeliApartheid #MustafaAbuAli
