Join ArteEast for their latest program, IMAGES HIJACKING SCREENS FOR LIBERATION, curated by Ali Hussein AlAdawy and featuring films by Mustafa Abu Ali, Basma al-Sharif, Arab Loutfi, Sami Al Salamoni, Mary Jirmanus Saba, and Tareq Rantisi. The program explores striking iconographic imagery of the liberation of Palestine that has emerged from the Palestinian resistance since 1969.

Screening Online: October 11 - 25
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Featuring three restored works from the film archives of the International Solidarity era and three contemporary works from post-Oslo era to the present, the program further emerges from within the contexts of the hegemony of NGOization and donor political economy, the ideologies of human rights and contemporary art and the return of the humanitarian gaze within a dominant global economy. From the hijacking of airplanes to the live-streaming of the Al-Aqsa flood, these images become instruments that seize newspaper headlines, media screens, and trends on social media platforms to work for the Palestinian cause. They fuel the hearts of international solidarity for liberation.

During the Cold War (1968-1982) when international solidarity between the developing world and the Palestinian cause grew, Palestinian filmmakers in collaboration with different arms of the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) were producing militant films destined for resistance fighters in military camps, families in refugee camps, international solidarity campaigns, progressive political organizations, activists and finally, Arab and third-world solidarity film festivals and forums. Today and since October 2023, we can witness a similar trend with regards to content creators and filmmakers from Gaza whose imagery continues to interrupt Instagram’s rigidly controlled algorithms. Their content reveals the horrors of the Palestinian struggle for survival and an unfolding Genocide, which in turn, has led to the building of spontaneous and self-organized solidarity campaigns all over the world.