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Thursday, April 3, 7:30 pm
The Dead Weight of
a Quarrel Hangs
(Walid Ra’ad/The Atlas Group, 1999, 16 min.)
Walid Ra’ad established the Atlas group
as an “imaginary non-profit research foundation” documenting
the contemporary history of Lebanon and the Lebanese Civil Wars (1975-1991).
The Group has found/produced notebooks, films, videotapes, photographs
and other documents. With this tape, Raad asks: “How does one witness
the passing of an extremely violent present?”
Hostage: The Bachar
Tapes
(Souheil Bachar and the Atlas Group, 2001, 16 min.)
The "Western Hostage Crisis" is
examined through the alleged testimony of Souheil Bachar, the only Arab
to have been detained with the Western hostages kidnapped in Beirut in
the 1980s. The film addresses the cultural, textual and sexual aspects
of his detention with the Americans.
Palestine is Still
the Issue
(John Pilger, 2002, 54 min.)
Through interviews and footage rarely seen
in the Western media, British journalist John Pilger examines the living
conditions of Palestinians in the West Bank, the historical context of
Israeli occupation, and the question of what constitutes terrorism. The
program was reviewed by England’s Independent Television Commission
which praised its quality of journalism. When aired in the U.K., the chairman
of the TV network Pilger works for and the Israeli lobby called this film
“inaccurate,” “historically incorrect” and “a
tragedy for Israel.”
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