Palestine from Above
Power and colonial hegemony documents in dialogue with artistic projects. 11 Sept. 2021 - 15 Jan. 2022, A.M. Qattan Foundation, Ramallah.
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(Shaina Anand and Ashok Sukumaran, with Shereen Barakat, Nida Ghouse, Mahmoud Jiddah, Mahasen Nasser Eldin, and Aarthi Parthasarathy)
The Neighbour before the House (Al Jaar Qabl Al Daar)
60 mins, 2009-2011
Eight Palestinian families living in and around Jerusalem city use their TV screens to look out into their neighbourhood, via a CCTV camera mounted on the rooftops of their homes, tripods made of stones. A film production made possible without acknowledging or seeking permission from the Israeli state, and by re-orienting both operational images and subject-positions of citizens. Instead of bearing witness in the usual way, these families control the cameras from their homes; a voice finds an image, an image is probed beneath its surface, thoughts withdraw or rebound, as Palestinians evaluate the nature of their distance from others. This feature-film is part of a long body of experimental works by CAMP around documentary images, surveillance, subject awareness and distribution. The work was filmed and shown in Jerusalem in 2009, and then edited into a film in 2011. The footage is archived in Pad.ma.
Part of Chapter 3: Jerusalem Represented
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© Stills, text: Courtesy of artists, author, and A. M. Qattan Foundation
Power and colonial hegemony documents in dialogue with artistic projects. 11 Sept. 2021 - 15 Jan. 2022, A.M. Qattan Foundation, Ramallah.