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The People and The Land
Call Number: V 054Format: VHSProducers: Riad BahhurCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Palestinian filmmaker Riad Bahhur takes a critical look at U.S. support of the Israeli occupation of Palestine, its impact on daily life there, and its surprising effect on U.S. public policy.
By award winning photographer Tom Hayes - Public Broadcasting Corporation paid for this film, then refused to air it. Filmed at great risk to film crew and civilian population, filmed in Gaza, West Bank and Haifa. For those who are seeking the truth about the war of rocks against rifles, 1 hour, professional quality. Learn why many professing Christians support war, repression and torture.
Gaza Strip
Date: 1/1/2001Call Number: V 113Format: DVDProducers: James LongleyCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Gaza Strip
Directed by James Longley
Produced in Palestine/US, 2002
Running Time: 74m
Distributor: Arab Film Distribution
Website: www.arabfilm.com
A refreshingly unfettered look at the Israeli-Palestinian situation in the occupied territory, Longley's documentary is a unique experience, a film which gives a voice to a population largely ignored by the mainstream media. Shot almost entirely in a cinema vérité style and presented without narration, the film focuses on ordinary Palestinians rather than politicians and pundits. GAZA STRIP is an extraordinary and painful journey into the lives of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip struggling with the day-to-day trials of the Israeli occupation. In January of 2001, Longley traveled to the occupied territory. His plan was to stay for two weeks to collect preliminary material for a documentary film on the Palestinian Intifada. It was during his stay that Ariel Sharon was elected as Israeli Prime Minister. As violence erupted around him, Longley threw away his return ticket and filmed for the next three months, acquiring nearly 75 hours of footage. GAZA STRIP follows a range of people and events following the election, including the first major armed incursion into "Area A" by IDF forces during this intifada. More observation than political argument, GAZA STRIP offers a rare look inside the stark realities of life under Israeli military occupation.
Jenin, Jenin
Date: 1/1/2002Call Number: V 114Producers: Mohamed BakriCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
'Where is God,' an elderly man desperately wonders when surveying the debris in the Palestinian refugee camp Jenin.
The film, directed and co-produced by Palestinian actor and director Mohammed Bakri, includes testimony from Jenin residents after the Israeli army's Defensive Wall operation, during which the city and camp were the scenes of fierce fighting. The operation ended with Jenin flattened and scores of Palestinians dead. Palestinians as well as numerous human rights groups accused Israel of committing war crimes in the April 2002 attack on the refugee camp. "Jenin Jenin" shows the extent to which the prolonged oppression and terror has affected the state of mind of the Palestinian inhabitants of Jenin.
Bitterness and grief are the prevailing feelings among the majority of the population. Many have lost loved ones or are still searching for victims and furniture among the debris. A little girl, who does not seem to be much older than twelve, tells her story but knows no fear. The ongoing violence in her day-to-day life only nourishes her feelings of hatred and the urge to take revenge. She tells what she would do to Prime Minister Sharon if he visited the camp and she shouts that the Palestinians will never give up the struggle. They will keep on producing children, who can continue the fight against injustice.
The sad question forces itself on the spectator. What will become of a country, a people when its children are confronted with war and violence from a very early age?
Banned in Israel, "Jenin Jenin" is dedicated to Iyad Samudi, the producer of the film, who returned home to Yamun after the shooting of the film was completed. On June 23, as Israeli forces besieged Yamun, Samudi was shot and killed as he was leaving a military-closed area with three friends.
Children of Fire
Date: 1/1/1990Call Number: V 119Format: VHSProducers: Mai MasriCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
When filmmaker Mai Masri returned to her hometown of Nablus after a 14 year absence, she discovered a new generation of Palestinians fighting for their freedom: the children of the Intifada. A 50 minute documentary, made in 1990 of the lives of the Palestianian kids, who shout and throw stones at Israeli soliders, play war games together, and create childish paintings that are filled with the violent images that surround them - of their young friends and relatives who have lost their lives in the fight for their homeland. "Dramatic, bravely filmed stuff...if you closed your eyes you could have been witnessing the Nazi occupation of the Warsaw Ghetto." [Daily Express] In Arabic with English subtitles.
People and the Land
Date: 1/1/1997Call Number: V 120Format: VHSProducers: Tom Hayes, Raid BahhurCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Ahlan w'Sahlan (Our People and Our Lands)is a Palestinian expression of greeting offering everything between earth and sky for the comfort of a guest. It also sums up the dual responsibilities placed on an occupying power by the Geneva Accords; administration of the occupied territory and responsibility for the well-being of the people on it.
People and the Land airdrops viewers into the universe of an occupied people, unreeling images of a new form of apartheid based on ethnicity. Challenging U.S. foreign policy and the conventions of the documentary form itself, People and the Land examines the concrete realities of Israel's conduct in the West Bank and Gaza, the level of U.S. support for that conduct through foreign aid, and the human cost of that aid in Palestine and the U.S.
Promises
Call Number: V 264Format: VHSProducers: Justine Shapiro, B.Z. GoldbergCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
PROMISES offers touching and surprisingly fresh insight into the Middle East conflict when filmmaker B.Z. Goldberg returns to his hometown to see what seven children — Palestinian and Israeli — think about war, peace and just growing up. Living within 20 minutes of each other, these children are nevertheless locked in separate worlds. Through candid interviews, the film explores a legacy of distrust and bitterness, but signs of hope emerge when some of the children dare to cross the checkpoints to meet one another.
ROTC Instructor Teaching
Date: 1/1/1990Call Number: V 485Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
ROTC instruction followed by a PSA featuring members of Women Against Imperialism calling on people to join a demonstration against the gulf war.
Various features focusing on Libya and Gaddafi's foreign relations and anti-Israel politics.
Tragedy in the Holy: The Second Uprising
Call Number: V 746Format: VHSProducers: Dennis MuelerCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
This documentary addresses the core issues of land and identity - It probes the evolution of the seemingly incurable conflict in Palestine from a historic perspective that is typically unknown to American audiences.
Gaza Strip: A Film by James Longley
Call Number: V 750Format: VHSProducers: James LongleyCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Gaza Strip follows a range of people and events following the election of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, including the first major armed incursion into Area A by IDF forces during this intifada. This film focuses on ordinary Palestinians rather than politicians and pundits and offers a rare look inside the stark realities of Palestinian life and death under Israeli military occupation.
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