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PATOIS 2024: Notes on Displacement
Online ticket sales close before the event, but this program is not sold out.
Post-screening discussion with filmmaker Khaled Jarrar; Sabrine Abed, Human Rights Attorney; & Fatima Khan, ISLA Immigrant Justice Fellow.
Notes on Displacement (75 min) (2022)
The news is full of images of overcrowded boats and vast tent camps. But how much do we really know about what refugees are going through? Notes on Displacement takes a deep dive by following a single family on a grueling journey across Europe. Their fear, disorientation, and solidarity is palpable.
Nadira, an elderly Palestinian, has been a refugee since the age of 12. And now she has to leave Damascus, too. She and her daughter Mona feared for their lives there, but the idea of a safe existence elsewhere is a distant dream. Filmmaker Khaled Jarrar receives unsettling videos and voice messages as they cross to the Greek island of Lesbos. He joins them there, on the long road to a better life.
Jarrar has his personal reasons for going through this experience in order to eliminate, in his own images, the distance so dominant in Western media coverage. He worms his way through the thronging crowds, gets lost in the night with his group, discovers how dangerous language barriers can be, and wanders around in the dehumanizing camps. And in a sense healong with the viewer becomes a true member of this family.
Khaled Jarrar BIO
Khaled Jarrar was born in Jenin, Occupied Palestine in 1976. Jarrar completed his studies in interior design at Palestine Polytechnic University in 1996. Upon graduating he smuggled himself to work as a carpenter in Nazareth, living as an underground illegal worker. In 1998 Jarrar enlisted in an intensive military training which resulted in working for Arafat as a personal body guard until Arafats death in 2004 and a 25 year career in the Palestinian Authoritys Presidential Guard. Attempting to create a life between the military and an artistic practice, Jarrar entered the field of photography in 2005. He graduated from the International Academy of Art Palestine, Ramallah in 2011 and completed an MFA in fine art from the University of Arizona in 2019, where he was the recipient of the 2016 Anni and Heinrich Sussman Award.
Jarrar, a multidisciplinary artist, explores modern power struggles and their sociocultural impact on ordinary citizens, through highly symbolic photographs, videos, film, and performative interventions. Where We Lost Our Shadows, his filmic collaboration with Pulitzer prize winning composer Du Yun, premiered at Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in 2019. His State of Palestine project was featured in the 7th Berlin Biennale. Jarrars work has been featured Maraya Art Centre, Sharjah; the New Museum, New York City; the University of Applied Arts, Vienna; the 15th Jakarta Biennale; the 7th Berlin Biennale (2012); 52nd October Salon, Belgrade; Al-Mamal Foundation, Dubai, Jerusalem; and the London Film Festival. Infiltrators, Jarrar's first feature-length film, was a documentary about everyday Palestinians illegally crossing the apartheid wall to be with their families in Jerusalem. It won the FIPRESCI (International Federation of Film Critics), Jury Special Award and the Muhr Arab Documentary Special Jury Prize at the Dubai International Film Festival in 2012. Notes on Displacement is his second documentary feature, about a Palestinian refugees flight from Syria to Germany, and received a world premier at the IDFA Envision Competition.
Partner Organization: ISLA (Immigration Services and Legal Advocacy).
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LocationThe Broad Theater (View)
636 N. Broad St
New Orleans, LA 70119
United States
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