March Chronicle by Saverio Cantoni, Shaza Omran & Tuba Kilic
Who owns the narrative
Montage Interdit, the impossibility of connecting dots or seeing gaps.
It is a non-linear talk between us.
We gathered in a circle
Waiting the rest of the group to complete
This game needs us to be all here
And we started
Making, being
and weaving
Bouncing back and forth
Taking versus giving
Give and reflect your own existence
We are having a multi-linear conversation.
– Throwing a pillow from one to another.
– Shouting names from one to another.
– Doing these two actions together is like having two story lines with the same character.
Building relation
Building narrative
Create the sense of interconnectedness and mutual balance
Balance of heart and mind
Reciprocity
Each throw echoes with rhythmic insisting
Keep the timing
We montage two actions into each other.
– We march and chant.
– We sit and paint a banner.
– We stand and be next to each other.
– We roll on the floor and look at the sky
– We hold each other and hold each other.
Deep listening
There are moments of uncertainty of the next action
Be on time
When we hold each other it helps us to stand together. When we hold onto each other, it makes us louder. When we hold each other we–we create a gap between us. The gap is empty but the empty space is safe between us.
“Leaving empty in order to preserve the spaces…”
Radio Al-Hara: Talk by Elias and Yousef Anastas
Remembering the sequence each move precise
Repetition and persistence
Stay present with attention concise
We stand next to each other. Where do we look together shows–tells–teachs us where do we stand in this life. We stand next to each other, we hold each other, shout together. This is what we learn from eachother after another majelis.
Excerpt 01: Rony Brauman & Eyal Sivan, THE SPECIALIST, portrait of a modern criminal 1999.
We had superiors, commanders, sub-comanders, units, sub-units… It was just like the army.
Why “Operation Matate?”
Do you understand “matate?”
You don’t know what it is?
Oh, I see!
A broom!
To clean the earth.
Why that name?
Because we swept out the Arabs.
Especially the nomads.
Excerpt 02: Eyal Sivan & Michel Khleifi, ROUTE 181, Fragments of a Journey in Palestine-Israel, Chapter 3 the North, 2003.
Have you never felt pity for the expelled?
Can you talk about what you felt?
No, I can’t.
Let’s move on.
Let’s drop it.
We felt pity. We’re human.
Why won’t you tell me?
I told you, we felt pity.
So what?
Excerpt 03: Rony Brauman & Eyal Sivan, THE SPECIALIST, portrait of a modern criminal 1999.
While we were trying to construct the timeline that would create a narrative of continuity
Interacting with the Script: Theatre of the ___________
(Oppressed, Oppressor, Victim, Perpetrator, Wrecked, Privileged)
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