 'in/tangible cartographies – new arab video' was commisioned by World Wide Video Festival 2001, and especially curated by Jayce Salloum.
In the aftermath of the Oslo accords, where the criminalization of the Palestinian movement is legitimized, the videomaker returns home and attempts to travel from Bethlehem to Jerusalem, a relatively short distance. In a banal and everyday occurrence at a checkpoint, Jacir's camera lays out a critique of the notion that the Palestinians are any closer to their freedom and a just peace. A simple but effective take on eight fruitless years of negotiations where the occupation has merely been packaged more efficiently and the phrase 'peace process' given a consecrated halo that allowed more abuses, more settlements, more imprisonments, more Palestinian suffering than before.
(E. Said)
– Jayce Salloum
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World premiere
Annemarie Jacir ° 1974 Bethlehem, Palestine
Lives and works in Palestine and the USA
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