Country: Palestine, Germany
Year: 2022
Language: Hebrew
Subtitles: English, Spanish
Runtime: 19 mins.
Aljafari’s new film takes its title from a brief story by Borges, one that considers our collective inability to know God by sight. To play against this concept, Aljafari presents footage of the Israeli military conducting maneuvers in the desert. The material itself is uncanny, since it is never entirely apparent whether we are watching documentary scenes, a staged training film, or decontextualized excerpts from a fictional feature. This aspect, heightened by Aljafari’s precise editing rhythms, suggests that violence is always doubled, a representation of itself. Aljafari peers into the collective unconscious of “the most moral army in the world.”
DIRECTOR
Kamal Aljafari
Palestinian filmmaker, teacher and film researcher. He studied at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne and now lives in Berlin. He is currently completing A Fidai Film and preparing a tape to be shot in Jaffa, Israel.
Director:
Kamal Aljafari
Production:
Kamal Aljafari
Screenplay:
Kamal Aljafari
Editing:
Yannig Willmann
Sound:
Attila Faravelli
contacto: kamalaljafari.productions@gmail.com
Screenings
León
22.7.2023
13:00 (Horario CST)
Auditorio Mateo Herrera 
San Miguel de Allende
24.7.2023
14:00 (Horario CST)
Teatro Santa Ana