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.
Al Jaar Qabla Al Daar
The Neighbour before the House
(60 mins)
2009
Arabic and English with English Subtitles.
Al Jaar Qabla Al Daar
The Neighbour before the House
A.M Qattan Foundation
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 to
Rivers without Banks
at CAMP
27th December, 2013 through 27th January, 2014
Before 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. 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.
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.
CAMP in conversation with Ritu Sarin, Tenzing Sonam and Natasha Ginwala at Experimenter Colaba around their exhibition, Shadow Circus.
The Neighbour Before The House
Film screening followed by discussion with CAMP
M+ Afterimage Cinema
Featuring The Country of the Sea
MOVE STAY OR DISAPPEAR
Saturday, June 10th 2023, 6pm onwards.
An outcome of a 6-week residency at CAMP in Chuim village Khar, a continuing dialogue with each other and with the studio.
Midnight's Third Child
Readings, Screenings and Discussions
with Naeem Mohaiemen
This artist talk accompanies Signals: How
Video Transformed the World.
Organised by Stuart Comer, Michelle Kuo and Rattanamol SIngh Johal.
Re-Navigating the Afrasian Sea and Notions of Diaspora
featuring The Annotated "Gujarat and the Sea" and The Country of the Sea
Remembering Chandita, the origins of COMET and Bharat Ki Chaap https://phantas.ma/chanditam-bkc Her annotated essay, 2014