Route 181: Fragments of a Jounrney to Palestine - Israel (part I)
Duration: 01:23:00 Capturing the fragments of a land shattered by politics, history, and colonialism, "Route 181", clocks in at about four and a half hours. The film's length is epic-worthy, but it allows the filmmakers to present oral history from a wide variety of people who live al...
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| Institution: | Open Society Archives at Central European University |
| Language: | Arabic Hebrew |
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Momento! Sourat Film ; WDR ; Arte
2004
Belgium |
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10891/osa:af0bfd8c-b7be-4c91-9d04-008cded6787c |
| Summary: | Duration: 01:23:00
Capturing the fragments of a land shattered by politics, history, and colonialism, "Route 181", clocks in at about four and a half hours. The film's length is epic-worthy, but it allows the filmmakers to present oral history from a wide variety of people who live along the 1947 partition line, while at the same time allow for minutes-long footage of the monotonous grey concrete wall that quietly runs along one of the region's main roads. By portraying both the divide of the physical landscape and that of the humans that inhabit it, viewers receive a fuller understanding of this conflicted part of the world. Viewers meet Israelis and Palestinians of a wide variety of backgrounds and politics. Disillusioned Israeli Jews of Moroccan descent wish they had never emigrated to Israel in the first place, while adolescent Palestinian citizens of Israel, because they are educated with an Israeli curriculum, squabble over whether they are Palestinian or Israeli. Thus the film introduces to its audience, through extended interviews with various Israelis and Palestinians, the nuanced complexity of those people who live along the green line. |
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| Published: | 2004 |