Synopsis
Theo Panagopoulos (who has a Greek father, a Lebanese-born mother and Palestinian grandparents) lives and works in Scotland, where he discovered two silent 16mm color films made in the 1930s and 1940s by a Scottish missionary who had decided to film the floral splendor of the Holy Land.
In Panagopoulos’ montage of this bucolic archive footage, he gradually zooms in on the Arab Palestinians who appear in the background. The result is an elegiac essay on the role of historical footage, over which the dark shadow of contemporary horrors inevitably looms.
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Credits
17 min
color
DCP
Spoken languages: English, Arabic
Director
Theo Panagopoulos
Theo Panagopoulos
Production
Marissa Keating
Marissa Keating
Executive producer
Flore Cosquer,
Mark Thomas
Flore Cosquer,
Mark Thomas
Editing
Theo Panagopoulos
Theo Panagopoulos
Sound Design
Hannan Jones
Hannan Jones
Music
Alexandra Katerinopoulou
Alexandra Katerinopoulou
Screening copy
Scottish Documentary Institute
Scottish Documentary Institute
Stills
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