Accidents, Archives, and Acts of Sabotage: A Conversation with Palestinian Film Director Kamal Aljafari
In a colonial context, reworking images is an act of liberation and reclaiming, a way to tell stories of a...
Kamal Aljafari is a Palestinian filmmaker. He studied at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne and has held teaching positions at The New School in New York and the Deutsche Film-und Fernsehakademie in Berlin. He was awarded a Radcliffe Fellowship at Harvard University and was a fellow of the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France. His installation “The Camera of the Dispossessed” was shown at the 35th Bienal de São Paulo in 2023. Aljafari was also honored at IndieLisboa 2024 with a full retrospective of his work at the Portuguese Cinematheque. His most recent work, “A Fidai Film,” premiered this year at the Visions du Réel International Film Festival in Nyon.
In a colonial context, reworking images is an act of liberation and reclaiming, a way to tell stories of a...
