Suspended Time

2013 | DocumentaryDramaVideo art | 57 min
by Ahmed Abu Nasser, Mohammed Abu Nasser, Assem Nasser, Amin Nayfeh,Alaa Al Ali, Yazan Khalil, Asma Ghanem, Muhannad Salahat, Ayman Azraq, Mahdi Fleifel
SUMMARY

Suspended Time is a film program comprised of 9 short films by 9 Palestinian filmmakers and artists looking back at the 20 years that followed the signing of the 1993 Oslo Accords. The spectrum of films reflect, on the one hand, the geographical dispersal and fragmentation of Palestinians and, on the other, the diversity of the Accords’ consequences on the various aspects of Palestinians’ lived experience. This work is a montage of confined spaces, physical and mental; handshakes; journeys; sounds; and time.

The films, which were selected as part of an open call in late summer 2013 and produced by Idioms Films, are:

Apartment 10/14, by Tarzan and Arab

From Ramallah, by Assem Nasser

Interference, by Amin Nayfeh

Journey of a Sofa, by Alaa al Ali

Leaving Oslo, by Yazan Khalili

Long War, by Asma Ghanem

Message to Obama, by Muhannad Salahat

Oslo Syndrome, by Ayman Azraq

Twenty Handshakes for Peace, by Mahdi Fleifel