Dir: Kamal AlJafari | 78' | 2024

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Kamal Aljafari reclaims these images, which have been stored by the Israeli army and Ministry of Defense, thwarting this attempt to erase a people deprived of their visual memory.  The Ministry of Defence misused the vast collection of Palestinian books, photographs and films for propaganda purposes. Palestinian Aljafari reclaims the appropriated images and, through cinematic sabotage, removes them from their forced ideological context. He crosses out in red the commentaries and figures of the winners; he poetically colours, associatively connects and adamantly condemns. His collage, which has the Arabic word fidai in its title, meaning to sacrifice for the good of the whole, is an act of political defiance and artistic liberation.

Aljafari has described his approach as the ‘camera of the dispossessed’ by recovering lost images and memories of life in Palestine. The documentary has decontextualized pre-existing material as a form of artistic and political liberation.                            

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