This screening is part of: POLITICS OF THE IMAGE: COLLABORATIONS BETWEEN THE PALESTINIAN LIBERATION MOVEMENT AND THE TWO GERMANIES
In 1976, the Palestine Cinema Institute (PCI) delegated cinematographer Marwan Salamah to the Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen in the GDR. His …FROM THE OLIVE TREE (1987), officially a GDR/PLO coproduction but in fact a one-man effort, tells the story of Paris-based Palestinian painter Samir Salameh. It will be screened alongside Adnan Madanat’s PALESTINIAN VISIONS (1977) – a production of the PCI (and, aside from the existence of a German language version, not related to Germany), Madanat’s film is a portrait of Palestinian painter Ibrahim Ghannam. The program showcases two artists who utilize very different genres to express their ideas and reflections about how to memorialize Palestine on canvas.
Marwan Salamah
…FROM THE OLIVE TREE / …VOM OLIVENBAUM
1987, 26 min, 16mm-to-DCP. In German with English subtitles.
Adnan Madanat
PALESTINIAN VISIONS
1977, 30 min, 16mm-to-DCP. In Arabic with English subtitles.
Total running time: ca. 60 min.