If Jerusalem is the capital of both Israel and Palestine, and on the eve of Netanyahu's visit to a historically Palestine-friendly India, we bring you two films with surprising images and voices that cut across the neighbour-relation of these two countries, locked in a battle of intimacies. One film is set in the heart of Jerusalem, and the other in Tel Aviv (with a little bit of holiday in India).
7:00 pm
Al Jaar Qabla Al Daar (The Neighbour Before the House)
CAMP
2012, CCTV video, 72 mins, 60 mins
Arabic and English with English subs.
Eight Palestinian families living in and around Jerusalem city use their TV screens to look out into their neighbourhood, via a camera mounted on the rooftops of their homes, tripods made of stones. Their speech travels between the farthest things and the innermost fantasies.
8:00 Break
8:15 pm
Z-32
Avi Mograbi
2008, 80 mins
Hebrew with English subs.
A young soldier with the Israeli Army confesses to his girlfriend about killing two Palestinians during his military stint. They both wear digital masks. Mograbi himself transforms his living room into a Brechtian stage for what he calls, a musical tragedy.
Two films by CAMP
Al Jaar Qabla Al Daar (The Neighbour before the House)
From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf
featuring
The Neighbour Before the House
Al Jaar Qabla Al Daar
الجار قبل الدار
Al Jaar Qabla Al Daar
The Neighbour before the House
A.M Qattan Foundation
Al Jaar Qabla Al Daar
The Neighbour before the House
(60 mins)
2009
Arabic and English with English Subtitles.
Opening Show of the Palestinian Museum
Birzeit
Al Jaar Qabla Al Daar
الجار قبل الدار
The Neighbour Before The House
Video and Stills with accompanying commentary
90 minutes
7:00 pm
*plus a newly-scanned copy of "A Seventh Man", Berger's photo-text book on migrant work.
Pad.ma invites you toRivers without Banks at CAMP27th December, 2013 through 27th January, 2014Before the start of a new year; and among big and small resolutions for the future we chose to ask ourselves what is free cinema today, what is its political and perceptual economy, and what could we summon of its powers, before embarking on new journeys of making and thinking. Rivers without Banks is a screening program of films whose durations extend beyond conventional length. But importantly, this is not a collection put together quantitatively, even as we may argue that the epic scales present in the chosen films carry the weight of histories, and put together chronologically show us a century where individual everyday lives face the annals of terrible power; where the human condition battles with nature and technology, with love and loss, with good and evil.
الجار قبل الدار “The Neighbour
before the House” is a series of video probes into the landscape of East
Jerusalem. Shot with a CCTV security camera, these images show that before and after instrumental "surveillance", there is inquisitiveness, jest,
memory, desire and doubt that pervades the project of watching. A voice finds an image, an image is probed beneath its surface, thoughts withdraw or rebound.In these specific times and places, camera movements and live commentary become ways in which Palestinian residents evaluate what can be seen, and speak about the nature
of their distance from others.
60 mins, SD CCTV video and sync audio.
Filmed in 2009 and edited into this film in 2011.
The second segment of FILAMENT starts tomorrow, Tuesday, July 9, with CAMP's film, Al Jaar Qabla Al Daar (The Neighbour Before the House), CCTV video, 72 mins, 2009-11.
The work will be on view until Friday, 12 July with three shows daily at 2pm, 4pm & 6pm.
EXPERIMENTER
2/1 Hindusthan Road, Kolkata 700029
A 72-minute film resulting from a CCTV video project shot in Jerusalem/ Al Quds with eight palestinian families, from and around their homes. Screenings are every 90 minutes starting 10 am, the last screening is at 8 pm. At Bait Al Serkal, Upto May 7, 2011.
by Iram Ghufran
50 mins, 2023
7:00 pm
Introduction and post-screening discussion with Iram Ghufran.
A science-fiction fable set in the "miracle city" of Yiwu in China, in one of the world's largest wholesale markets for small commodities. Time is plastic as we travel into the near future, in the company of an unusual pair of guides, a mannequin and a person.
by Wang Bing
232 mins | 2023
6:30 pm*
Note* film starts earlier than usual, at 6:30pm, on account of its runtime.
There will be a short interval with food.
by Johan Grimonprez
150 mins| 2024|
7:00 pm
A story about the encounter of American Jazz and African decolonisation, via the UN and the CIA, with a lot of world around it. Featuring among others Patrice Lumumba, Krishna Menon, Malcolm X, Maya Angelou, Nikita Khrushchev, Nina Simone, Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington, Abbey Lincoln, Adou Elenga...
Join us for a season of new films at CAMP which explore configurations and revelations of "world", amidst a world in pieces.
We begin the year with
GRAND TOUR
by Miguel Gomes
2024, 120 mins.
7:00 pm.
in memorium, Tejas Pande.
Five narratives developed in the class "Footage Films", that re-assemble archives of campus protest, Penn Museum collections, university weapons development projects, the Schuylkill river, a utopia called Shangri-La, and their intersections across time and place.
*Recalling Far From Vietnam, collectively-made essay film from 1967.
Screening and conversation in collaboration with University of Pennsylvania’s Cinema & Media Studies department and CARG. At old Slought/ new Public Trust.
Film screening, and conversation
6-8:00 pm