FLEFF: New Media Artist DORIT NAAMAN with JERUSALEM, WE ARE HERE

04/04/18

Contributed by Patricia Zimmermann

FLEFF presents an exploration into the geographies of new media this year with an extraordinary project called JERUSALEM WE ARE HERE by Dorit Naaman.

The project won the Jury Prize in this year’s Invisible Geographies Exhibition of New Media Art curated by Dale Hudson, NYU Abu Dhabi and Claudia Costa Pederson, Wichita State University.

This interactive documentary bring expelled Palestinians, Greeks, Armenians, and others back to their former neighborhoods.

Screening at Cinemapolis on Sunday April 15 at 1:30, and moderated by Dr. Andrew Utterson, Screen Studies, Ithaca College, with artist Dorit Naaman.

Dorit Naaman is a documentarist and film theorist born and raised in Jerusalem.She teaches film and media at Queen’s University in Ontario (Canada) and splits her time between Canada and Jerusalem. 

Naaman developed a format of short personal documentaries, which she calls DiaDocuMEntaRy.

She has published on Israeli and to a lesser extent Palestinian cinema, focusing on gender, nationalism and militarism.

 

She initiated Jerusalem, We Are Here as a collaborative platform that can map and tell the stories of a Jerusalem that is no longer visible. 

 

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