10 mins
Alaa Abu Asad
Short Experimental
2018 - Palestine
Screens with: ERASED,___ASCENT OF THE INVISIBLE
Wild Plants of Palestine follows journeys of observational tours solicited by the Palestinian Museum and conducted by two professors from Birzeit University to collect photos of and information on the Palestinian Flora. The title is adapted from a collection of 123 images (circa 1900 to 1920) of wild flowers in Palestine found in the Matson Collection in the Library of Congress. Despite the tendency to trace the wild plants, the text in general aims at questioning the territorial extension of what is meant by the term “Palestinian”, while standing on insignificant topographical features of the (postcolonial) landscape in the West Bank. Furthermore, it addresses photography as a practice and a tool of distributing and restricting information at once.
International Premiere
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