2023 - 2024 Palestine Teach-Outs: Saturday 20 April

PALESTINE TEACH OUT: #3 Humanitarian Violence in Gaza: Open Source Methodologies and Tools for Investigating Israel's Military Campaign.

Saturday 20 April

10:15 - 11:45

Cafe Moga Style ~ Av. Lalla Aicha, Essaouira

Since 7 October 2023, Forensic Architecture has been documenting systematic patterns of violence and destruction in Gaza, focusing on the attack on life-sustaining infrastructure, such as hospitals, and mass displacement of Palestinian civilians under humanitarian measures.

DAI's How To Do Things With Theory-tutors will host Júlia Nueno for a presentation that will delve into the methodology and tools developed to respond to a humanitarian crisis at the scale and severity of the genocide in Gaza, focusing on how to keep up with pace of events, practices of legitimacy, and narrative as an object of intervention.

DAI Confluence 3 - PAF, St. Erme, France

PALESTINE TEACH OUT: #2 Militant Film from and beyond the Palestinian Liberation Struggle

We welcome Subversive Film, a cinema research and production collective that aims to cast new light upon historic works related to Palestine and the region, to engender support for film preservation, and to investigate archival practices. Their long-term and ongoing projects explore this cine-historic field including digitally reissuing previously overlooked films, curating rare film screening cycles, subtitling rediscovered films, producing publications, and devising other forms of interventions. Formed in 2011, Subversive Film is based between Ramallah and Brussels.

Their contribution comes in two parts:

Saturday 9 March

17:30 - 19:30

Film Program curated by Subversive Film

Media Room@PAF

1. Land Day (Japanese adaptation)

dir. Ghaleb Shaath, 50 min, 1983 (original 1977)

The original film was shot around the time of the first commemoration of Land Day in 1977, and it documents the different events taking place in Palestinian cities and villages of the Lower Galilee region in occupied Palestine. The remembrance events are used to garner witness accounts to what happened in 1976 during the demonstrations against the continuous land grab of Palestinian land. Other interviews with mayors and heads of local councils provide context and a history of Land Day. The screened version is the Japanese adaption of the original “Land Day”, produced six years later with additional historical context of the Palestinian struggle and Land Day itself.

2. Scenes of Occupation from Gaza

dir. Moustafa Abu Ali, 13 min, 1973

A rare film by the legendary filmmaker Mustafa Abu Ali, one of the founders of the Palestine Film Unit, the first filmic arm of the Palestinian revolution. Shot by a French news team, the footage was edited by Mustafa in Lebanon to produce one of the earliest films on the occupied territory in Gaza. Scenes of the Occupation from Gaza employs experimental editing techniques to produce a cinematically and politically subversive film. The film won the prize as best film at the Damascus Film Festival in 1973 and was screened at multiple festivals. It was the only film produced by the Palestine Cinema Group, which in 1974 came to the Palestine Cinema Institute.

3. Kufr Shuba

dir. Samir Nimr, 35 min, 1975

An iconic work produced by the Palestine Cinema Institute in Beirut, the film is directed by the Iraqi filmmaker Samir Nimr, and is titled after the small village of Kufr Shuba in South Lebanon, the site of solidarity between the Lebanese people and the Palestinian resistance following a battle that has devastated the village. The film is a poetic testament to the steadfastness of people, a liberation struggle and their love for their land.

Sunday 10 March

16:30 - 18:30

Today we welcome Reem Shilleh for a remote lecture during which she will talk about how the films that we watched yesterday, were produced by film units and bodies that were operating under the different political and militant wings of the Palestinian revolutionary movement 1968-82. The copies we are seeing here are part of the Tokyo Reels collection, which will also be described and discussed in this session.

Media Room@PAF

PALESTINE TEACH OUT: #2

Saturday 5 March

20:00 - 22:00

IZKOR means 'remember', an imperative that is imposed on Israeli society through the public educational system. During the month of April feast days and celebrations take place one after another. Passover, the celebration of freedom gained by Hebrews after slavery for the Pharaohs, marks the beginning, then festivities make place for mourning during the Holocaust Day and Memorial Day. All over the country people pay respect to the martyrs and heroes of the Holocaust and a week later to Israeli soldiers who died for their country. Independence Day is the peak of this violent succession of emotions. Memory orchestrated vigorously by all official institutions.

Film screening:"IZKOR, slaves of memory" (1990), followed by a Q & A, with the film's director Eyal Sivan

Media Room

Sunday 6 March

10:00 - 13:00

Workshop "Political Filmmaking" led by Eyal Sivan. In this workshop, Sivan will discuss his films and the filmmaking process.

Green Room

PALESTINE TEACH OUT: #1 Rethinking Statehood in Palestine

DAI Confluence 2 - NAC in Nida, Lithuania

Sunday, January 21. From 16:00 - 18.00

This was the first in a series of teach-outs on Palestine initiated by the HTDTWT tutors, which will include guest lectures, films and workshops. In this first edition, Dr.Leila Farsakh spoke about the historical and political background to the ongoing war on Gaza and its implication for the two-states solution and future of peace in the Middle East.

You can watch the registration here:

PALESTINE TEACH OUT: #0 Introduction

DAI Confluence 1 - PAF, St. Erme in France

Friday, November 24. From 17:00 - 19.00

DAI has fully embraced the initiative from the part of several theory and COOP tutors, to host Palestine Teach Outs during each DAI Confluence of the academic year 2023-2024. The Teach Outs will include films, podcasts, texts and guest speakers (on zoom and IRL).

During the introduction days, the plans for the Palestine Teach Outs were introduced by our theory tutors.

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