15 min
Lawrence Abu Hamdan
Experimental
2013 - Egypt, Netherlands

Language Gulf In the Shouting Valley is a 15 minute audio essay about the politics of language and the conditions of voice faced by the Druze community living between Palestine/Israel and Syria. Recordings of the Druze soldiers working as interpreters in the Israeli Military Court system are contrasted that with recordings from the Shouting Valley, Golan Heights, where the Druze population gather on both sides of the Israeli/Syrian border and shout across the valley to family and friends on the other-side. By Inhabiting the border between Syria and Israel and Palestine the Druze complicate the solid divide. If we listen closely to the oral border produced by this transnational community, in one voice we can simultaneously hear the collaborator and the traitor; the translator and the transgressor.

Co-presented by Images Festival

Screened with Theeb