 'in/tangible cartographies – new arab video' was commisioned by World Wide Video Festival 2001, and especially curated by Jayce Salloum.
A videotape about memory, directly positioning itself in relation to the 'other' both within and external to oneself and something that can be seen as a metaphorical account of the Israeli-Palestinian 'dialogue' or so called 'peace-process'. Flesh colliding with flesh, they pay, they watch, they don't want the body just the control within a field of restrictions and supposed freedom. This short narrative based loosely on the rereading of a 1972 classic of modern Arabic literature, the novel 'For Bread Alone (Al-Khubz al-Hafi)' by Moroccan writer Mohamed Choukri, depicts libidinal scenes and violent episodes without any sense of guilt, as if experienced from the viewpoint of a now urban subaltern - with the consciousness of one living in a place where survival is not of the fittest, but the only motif permissible.
– Jayce Salloum
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Director of photography Asaf Sudri. European premiere.
Tawfik Abu Wael ° 1976, Um Il Fahem, Palestine
Lives and works in Jaffa, Israel
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