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DESCRIPTION:PALESTINE: INTERIOR /  EXTERIOR\nVideos by James T. Hong and Kamal 
 Aljafari, both in person\n\nLocal San Francisco artist James T. Hong 
 presents THIS SHALL BE A SIGN (2007) and visiting Palestinian filmmaker 
 Kamal Aljafari presents The Roof (2006). These works take up the 
 contemporary moment in Palestine/Israel in radically different 
 ways.\n\nHong’s half-hour This Shall be a Sign is an experimental collage 
 that combines observa-tional footage and media reports of the recent 
 conflict over the reconstruction of an entrance ramp to the Al-Aqsa Mosque 
 in East Jerusalem. It is “an interpretation of the conflict over the 
 reconstruction of a ramp …, of the struggle for sovereignty over a holy 
 site, and of the power of technology as the ubiquitous medium of 
 communication and information in the age of multinational capitalism and 
 the dominion of the English language.”  (JH)\n\nKamal Aljafari’s 
 hour-long The Roof, is a visually eloquent and politically understated 
 cinematic essay exploring physical and psychic senses of place in the 
 context of Aljafari’s family history in Ramleh and Jaffa.  Aljafari 
 conveys how the region’s space, time, history — as well as the forms of 
 individual and collective experience they generate — have been molded by 
 politics and Israeli institutionalized neglect.  The roof of Aljafari’s 
 title is an absent one, on the unfinished house where his family has lived 
 since their resettlement in 1948, and it functions as a place of waiting, 
 literal and figurative, marked by constant deferral.\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/04/07/18491039.php
SUMMARY:PALESTINE: INTERIOR/EXTERIOR 2 films, 2 filmmakers in person
LOCATION:Artists' Television Access, 992 Valencia Street, San Francisco
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/04/07/18491039.php
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