This screening is part of: POLITICS OF THE IMAGE: COLLABORATIONS BETWEEN THE PALESTINIAN LIBERATION MOVEMENT AND THE TWO GERMANIES
The West Germans Manfred Vosz and Monica Maurer produced their films with PLO funds and were both loosely connected to the PCI. Vosz’s RASHIDIYA – SCENES FROM A PALESTINIAN REFUGEE CAMP (1977) is a short social reportage with a working-class aesthetic and Brechtian alienation effect, aimed at a politically educated German audience. Maurer worked mainly with the Palestinian Red Crescent Society, whose work she portrayed. Her films have an educational character, a political urgency, and a historical context. Often (as in the case of Maurer’s 1979 film CHILDREN OF PALESTINE, made with Samir Nimr) they also served as evidence before international bodies.
Manfred Vosz (Friedhelm Fett, Almut Hielscher, Franz Lehmkuhl, Eva Schlensag)
RASHIDIYA – SCENES FROM A PALESTINIAN REFUGEE CAMP / RASCHIDIA – SZENEN AUS EINEM PALÄSTINENSISCHEN FLÜCHTLINGSLAGER
1977, 20 min, 16mm-to-DCP. In German with English subtitles.
Monica Maurer & Samir Nimr
CHILDREN OF PALESTINE
1979, 34 min, 16mm-to-DCP. In English.
Total running time: ca. 60 min.