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Arab-Israeli Dialogue (Lionel Rogosin, 1974)
Arab-Israeli Dialogue (Lionel Rogosin, 1974)

    Arab-Israeli Dialogue

    Lionel Rogosin, USA, 1974, 41’

    Lionel Rogosin’s Arab-Israeli Dialogue (1974) seems as straightforward as can be. Palestinian poet Rashed Hussein and Israeli writer Amos Kenan sit down in the basement of Rogosin’s Bleecker Street Cinema in NYC to discuss the state of their shared political turmoil. Yet, with the perspective of time, their conversation shows a mutual respect towards one another’s belief systems that is unfathomable fifty years later. The polarisation they warn about here has come into full effect.

    Hussein and Kenan talk to one another about right-wing fearmongering, the right to self-defense, and the oppression of the Palestinians without the need for a mud fight. Each of them is given time to state their case in an intellectual manner, no matter how far apart their beliefs may be. Anger isn’t necessarily off the table, but underneath their heated discussion lies the shared understanding that they share the same desire: how do we live a life with dignity? And how do we do this while we’re both here?

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    This film was part of yanco’s November 2026 calendar

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    Snow Edge

    Juan Francisco Rodríguez, Colombia, 2021, 15’

    The thaw of the so-called eternal snow of Páramo, a neotropical alpine ecosystem in the high Andes, exposes a layer of meaning about the origins and survival of the landscape.

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    Magic, a portrait of Joris

    Chloë Delanghe, Belgium, 2018, 15’

    In Magic, a portrait of Joris, images sourced from different periods in time are glued together. Worn-out VHS footage filmed by the artist’s father is placed beside 8mm images she filmed herself. Both have the same subject: one boy, both a son and a brother. Connecting images of then and now, a new narrative of remembering opens up.

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    Scum Mutation

    Ov, France, 2020, 10’

    In this cyberpunk animation, four creatures wobble like marionettes in a black void. An alien power tries to subdue them; police voices strike as if they were truncheons, but these vulnerable bodies start to fight back.

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    I Don’t Feel At Home Anywhere Anymore

    Viv Li, Belgium, China, 2020, 16’

    A wistful but witty account of a trip to Beijing by filmmaker Viv Li, a Chinese art student who has been living abroad for ten years. Her stay with her family mercilessly exposes how uprooted she has become by her life abroad.

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    À l’usage des vivants

    Pauline Fonsny, Belgium, 2019, 27’

    In 1998, Semira Adamu, a 20-year-old Nigerian immigrant, died on Belgian soil of suffocation under a police pillow. Twenty years later, two women tell her story in a cry for justice. Through this film, they highlight the reality of detention centres: the harsh conditions of confinement, the suffering of detainees and the abuse by guards and police officers.

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    Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory

    Louis Lumière, France, 1895, 1’

    A man opens the large gate of the Lumière factory in Lyon, France, in 1895. Through the gate and a smaller door next to it, workers stream out for lunch. Once all the workers have left the factory, the gatekeeper closes the gate again.

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    Empty House

    Gina Kim, South Korea, USA, 1999, 24’

    This video diary depicts a young woman’s flat, the fears and fantasies about her body plainly revealed as she wakes up with a bloated face, full of self-loathing after a night of compulsive over-eating.

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    Devotion

    Cynthia Madansky, Turkey, 2003, 34’

    A sparing and minimal travelogue of Istanbul. A foreigner meditates on the unraveling of a relationship while moving from hotel room to hotel room. In a city simultaneously devoted to Islam and secular nationalism, she finds refuge in the frailty and severity of rituals.

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