Tag: history
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With Good Night, Asako Ujita presents a beautiful, intimate exploration of culture, place and memory at the margins of light, image and sound. Stretching the bounds of meaning and understanding, Good Night operates entirely in the realm of memory; arguably a landscape work above all else, Ujita’s practice of understanding the past relies on listening through silence,…
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In the concluding scene of Palestine 36, Afra (Wardi Eilabouni), a young Palestinian girl and a carrier of the knowledge of her culture, ancestors and the atrocities committed against them, walks barefoot through the stone streets of Jerusalem. This image, following the razing of Afra’s village, the torturing of her community, the destruction of her…
