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Effaced
by Nadine Shamounki (USA, 2001, 20 minutes, BetaSP)
Synopsis:
Winner
of Best Personal Documentary - Mixed Messages 2002 Awards, Effaced
is a documemoir of one family’s journey from war and in search
of a homeland. The filmmaker’s grandfather, an Assyrian, survived
the Ottoman massacre of 1915-1917 and escaped Turkey for Palestine
at the age of six. With the establishment of the State of Israel
in 1948, the family, like many Palestinians, was displaced to Jordan,
and later to Lebanon and the United States. Tracing her family’s
forced journeys, Shamounki reflects on her inherited loss and the
history of a people constantly on the run as they search for a safe
"Home."
In Arabic with English subtitles.
Post-screening
panel discussion with filmmaker Nadine
Shamounki, Charles Anderson (NYU) and Joseph Massad
(Columbia University)
Biography:
Nadine Shamounki was born to Palestinian parents in Beirut, Lebanon
and raised in Jordan, Europe and the USA. She acquired her two undergraduate
degrees from The University of Maryland in Cultural Anthropology
and Art Studio. She finished her M.A. at New School University in
Media Studies. Her previous video work includes the short I Shot
The Holy Land, addressing the feeling of being a visitor in one's
own homeland and praised by the Washington Diplomat Magazine as
"full of artfully placed freeze frames, high speed shots, with
the medium used to convey a great deal of feeling in a very compressed
time frame."
Festivals
& Awards:
Winner,
Best Personal Documentary, Mixed Messages Awards, 2002
2nd Chicago Palestinian Film Festival, 2003
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