Saturday, May 4, 2024, 8:00 pm, , classic-editor, classic-editor
MALAS’ THE DREAM + SALLOUM + SABA +
In collaboration with black hole cinematheque and from the river to the sea collective, we present an evening of films in solidarity with the Palestinian people and their struggle for liberation. Curated and introduced by our righteous East Bay ally Tooth, tonight’s program is built around Mohammad Malas‘ 1987 film, The Dream (Al-Manam), which centers around interviews with Palestinians living in forced exile among the refugee camps of Lebanon in the early years of the civil war and just prior to the massacres of Sabra and Shatila. The film uniquely focuses on the role that dreams play in the daily existence and struggles of the inhabitants of the camps. The first half of the night’s program– featuring Jayce Salloum‘s 2003 film untitled part 3b: (as if) beauty never ends, and Mary Jirmanus Saba‘s brand new film Mahdi Amel: The Colonial Mode of Production–hopes to resonate further on Al-Manam‘s dialectical relationship between the multivalent concept of dreams (both as oneiric visions and ideological ambitions) and the lived realities of those subjected to the generational and ongoing trauma of displacement, war, genocide, and cultural erasure, and their steadfast resistance in the face of it all. Benefit for Palestine Children’s Relief Fund, $10-100.