UID:
kobvindex_ZLB13569497
Format:
1 DVD Video (ca. 74 Min.)
Content:
American documentary filmmaker James Longley traveled to the Gaza Strip in January of 2001, planning to stay for two weeks and collect preliminary material for a film about the Palestinian intifada. He threw away his return ticket and stayed for another 3 months, shooting over 75 hours of material throughout the Gaza Strip. 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. The film is filmed almost entirely in a verite style, presented without narration and with little explanation, focusing on ordinary Palestinians rather than politicians and pundits. More observation than political argument, GAZA STRIP offers a rare look inside the stark realities of Palestinian life and death under Israeli military occupation. (Arab Film) "... Mr. Longley's camera does not have to look far to find the sources of their rage and despair: Israeli bulldozers demolishing houses and date groves; an absurd traffic jam on the beach after roads have been closed; emergency rooms full of wounded Palestinians, many of them children. It is impossible to see these images and remain unmoved, but the raw intensity of ''Gaza Strip'' is also a limitation, since it is purchased by the absence of anything (aside from some text at the beginning) that would provide some historical or political context. Given how polarized discussions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have become, this means that audiences will watch through their own ideological filters. Some will see the film as evidence of the bottomless cruelty of the Israeli occupation. Others will note the absence not only of any Israeli perspective, but also of any discussion of the deadlier forms of Palestinian resistance or the popularity of Hamas and Islamic Jihad in the desperate neighborhoods of Gaza..." (A. O. Scott, New York Times)
Note:
Arab., franz. mit engl. Untertiteln
Language:
Arabic
Keywords:
Gazastreifen
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Intifada 〈2000-2005〉
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DVD-Video
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DVD-Video
