You can watch the lecture Mohanad Yaqubi gave in Eye, entitled I Laugh Because I Know They Can't Kill Me, in which he breaks down the stereotyping of the Palestinian people, here:
Films, Talks & Events
Songs and Scenes from Palestine
10 — 24 May 2024
They watch and listen attentively to the personal stories of resilient Palestinians seeking contact with the place where their families lived, cried, sang, dreamed and loved for generations.
In Songs and Scenes from Palestine, we get to view the history and cultural identity of the Palestinian people through their own lens. In this programme, Palestinian artists and filmmakers allow us to share in their culture and their stories.
The selection is made up of recent, powerful documentaries and artist films that shine a new light on archival footage, and in which the relationship between landscape, culture and identity plays a major role.
Mohanad Yaqubi, programmer at the Palestine Film Institute, demonstrates using archival footage that it was predominately makers from other cultures who determined what was filmed and what left out of shot. This meant that Palestinians themselves were not really seen. And invisible people can easily be dehumanised and disappear, particularly in times of war such as now.
These films by Lina Soualem, Kamal Aljafari, Larissa Sansour, Jumana Manna and Noor Abed make us aware of the images imprinted in our minds. Whereas in the past Palestinians have all too often appeared as interchangeable, silent extras, in their films these filmmakers regain the right to speak about their divided past and the picture of them that has been painted.
Films, Talks & Events
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