Visual, Spatial and Temporal Aporias in the Post-Palestinian Films of Basma Alsharif

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Kristin Lené Hole
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Abstract This article focuses on the films of diasporic Palestinian artist Basma Alsharif, analyzing the visual strategies she mobilizes to negotiate three aporias in Palestinian experience around visuality, space and mobility and temporality. Focusing on Ouroboros (2017) and Home Movies Gaza (2013), I explore the ethical ways she represents a situation of suspended violence without spectacularizing suffering or relying on overdetermined visual conventions. The films evoke both feelings of spatial constraint, and conversely, a diasporic expansiveness that characterizes a Palestinian structure of feeling. Finally, I look at Alsharif’s engagement with the concept of the eternal return, paying particular attention to the ways that it suggests a notion of time not predicated on the unitary, revolutionary (i.e., heteromasculine) subject and proposes a way forward not based on the exclusionary rhetoric of the nation-state. Throughout the article, I put her work in conversation with other female Palestinian filmmakers handling similar themes to identify emerging patterns in how Palestine is portrayed and conceived.
巴斯马·阿尔沙里夫后巴勒斯坦电影中的视觉、空间和时间上的aporia
本文以流散的巴勒斯坦艺术家巴斯玛·阿尔沙里夫的电影为研究对象,分析了她在巴勒斯坦经历中围绕视觉性、空间性、流动性和时间性所运用的视觉策略。专注于《毒蛇》(2017)和《加沙家庭电影》(2013),我探索了她在不渲染痛苦或依赖过度确定的视觉惯例的情况下,以道德方式表现暂停暴力的情况。这些电影既唤起了空间约束的感觉,也反过来唤起了巴勒斯坦人情感结构特征的散失性扩张。最后,我看一下Alsharif对永恒回归概念的参与,特别注意它提出的时间概念的方式,而不是基于统一的,革命的(即,异性恋的)主体,并提出了一种不基于民族国家排他性修辞的前进道路。在整篇文章中,我将她的作品与其他处理类似主题的巴勒斯坦女性电影制作人进行了对话,以确定如何描绘和构思巴勒斯坦的新模式。
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Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication
Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-
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期刊介绍: The Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication provides a transcultural academic sphere that engages Middle Eastern and Western scholars in a critical dialogue about culture, communication and politics in the Middle East. It also provides a forum for debate on the region’s encounters with modernity and the ways in which this is reshaping people’s everyday experiences. MEJCC’s long-term objective is to provide a vehicle for developing the field of study into communication and culture in the Middle East. The Journal encourages work that reconceptualizes dominant paradigms and theories of communication to take into account local cultural particularities.
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