Arabic, French, Italian, Japanese with English subtitles

Perpetual Recurrences is an exercise in film programming. Rather than curating complete films, this task works with and through a selection of scenes. The core of the exercise is to look at recurring patterns in Palestinian cinema and cinema on Palestine. The selected scenes gather around each other to form sequences. They do so, dictated by repetitive occurrences, be that location, political discourse, mise-en-scène, object and so on. From the classroom to the militant in an open field delivering a speech with a tree somewhere in sight, to handheld camera shots in tight alleyways of refugee camps, to traveling shots from inside cars moving through streets, checkpoints and landscape; the scenes are lodged from their filmic contexts/politics, in both form and content. When placed in sequences, what do we see? A political canopy of moving image produced in and about Palestine over the past five decades?

The screening will be followed by a conversation with Reem Shilleh (in English).

• Sektion Section: Artist in Focus. Marwa Arsanios
• Programm Programme: Programme 2