Film: United Screens for Palestine
United Screens for Palestine is an open and decentralized collective of programmers, cultural workers and venues, responding to the paralysis brought about by the ongoing genocide as well as the increasing policing, censorship and criminalisation of everything Palestinian. As a collective, they aim to make each screening a space for conversation, learning and most of all, mobilization. As they state: “We firmly believe that to present these films is to insist that witnessing is an active process, far beyond the act of watching. Ultimately, we build on long standing global film initiatives which serve as platforms for substantive discussions and an earnest exploration of the historical narrative of Palestine.”
At Le Guess Who?, United Screens for Palestine presents LANDED REEL-ATIONS, a program created together with Asher Gamedze
Landed Reel-ations is a film program centering the land question in South Africa and Palestine. The films – some produced by militants in the 1970s and 1980s, and others from the contemporary moment – engage with settler ideologies, land dispossession and indigenous modes of relating to the land. Drawing on the shared and ongoing histories of colonialism and solidarity between South Africa and Palestine, the programme deepens our understanding of land as a relation to consider practices of anticolonial resistance and liberatory futures. Conceived by United Screens for Palestine, the programme is open to all and features screenings and discussions with Asher Gamedze, Reem Shilleh and Omar Jabary Salamanca.
BLOCK I (13:15-14:45)
Films:
USFP Animation (1m)
Last Grave at Dimbaza (1974, 55’)
Scenes From the Occupation in Gaza (1973, 13’)
+ Discursive Moment
BLOCK II (15:00-16:15)
Films:
USFP Animation (1m)
What the Soil Remembers (2023, 29’)
Ma'loul Celebrates Its Destruction (1985, 30’)
+ Discursive Moment
