© Artistic Intifada
Creator: Samar Hazboun | 2012
Before the Wall is an ongoing photo project that aims to portray a representative segment of the last generation of Palestinian youth born before the Israeli apartheid wall is completed. The silence of the images serves as a sombre reminder of the brutal reality in which people live, imprisoned by a wall with a total length of about 708 kilometres and a towering height of up to 8 metres.
Creator:Julia Bacha | 2009
“When I first met Ayed Morrar, the protagonist of Budrus, in September 2007, he was adamant that he was not worthy of a documentary film. Yet all Palestinian nonviolence leaders he suggested I talk to quickly sent me back to him. It became clear that the nonviolent movement Ayed launched in 2003 to resist the building of Israel’s Separation Barrier through his village had become a role model to local activists. I hope this film can have the same effect on its viewers as the village’s efforts had on those who experienced it – inspiring more people to believe in, cover, support and join the unarmed struggles taking place in the West Bank and East Jerusalem today.”
Creator: Hisham Erout | 2005
From the “Students Under Occupation” project.
Creator: Larissa Sansour | 2005
“Bethlehem Bandolero is a kitsch video featuring Sansour herself as a Mexican gunslinger arriving in Bethlehem for a duel with the Israeli Wall. Wearing a big sombrero and a scarf, the artist walks the streets of Bethlehem and greets the locals before taking off for her final showdown. The editing is inspired by television effects from the seventies. The humour of the piece is stressed by the underlying music. By fusing world crises and blatant absurdity, Bethlehem Bandolero challenges the current dialogue on the Middle East by shaking its conceptual foundations.”
Creator: Steve Sabella | 2010
“In this controversial work, the artist uses his own body in a photographic installation, together with six Israelis. Managing to convince six Israelis to take their clothes off, (including himself), and because the work is exhibited on opposite walls, the installation raises many questions on the nature of the Palestinian Israeli conflict.”
Creator: Rana Bishara | 1997
“‘Cactus is like a language for me and I seldom use it as subject for drawing but as the thing itself in three dimensions.’ In Haifa, she found a fragment of an old home - a wall still standing after Israeli destruction. Rana hung it with cactus leaves and between them she hung fragments of Arabic tiles often found at the site of destroyed homes. She called the work ‘Scream of the Valley - Wadi Al-Nisnas.’ She explained that Nisnas is the animal like a cat that is long in shape. And wadi means valley. The Nisnas is extinct in this valley now. Thus use of the phrase in this context is intended to describe how Arabs feel in Israel - deeply threatened. As time went by the cactus leaves sprouted and the meaning of that is not lost on either of us.”
