Department of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies

University of Massachusetts-Amherst



Presents



DiaDocuMEntaRY

A series of videos and presentation by Dorit Naaman



October 10, TU, 4:30 pm

601 Herter Hall, UMass



Dorit Naaman will screen a series of her short video pieces and discuss
their aesthetics and politics. This series emerges out of her interest in
diaries, home movies, and documentaries. But it is also an attempt to speak
about politics, particularly the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, from a very
personal perspective. Aesthetically, these videos are intimate, but not only
autobiographical. The tension between home- movie look and documentary
techniques serves to problematize the politics of representation, and our
expectations of documentaries (primarily to be objective and based on causal
relations). At the same time it carves a political space for voices rarely
heard.





Dorit Naaman is a film theorist and documentarist from Jerusalem, teaching
at Queen's University, Canada. Her research focuses on Middle Eastern
cinemas (primarily from post-colonialist and feminist perspectives), and she
is currently working on a book on the visual representation of Palestinian
and Israeli women fighters. She published in Cinema Journal, Quarterly
Review of Film and Video, Style and Third Text, edited a special issue of
Framework and co-edited a special issue of Public. Dorit Naaman is also an
activist for a just solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.



This program is co-sponsored by the Department of Communication and Film
Studies Program at UMass





----- Original Message -----
From: "Jonathon Podolsky" <movies@...>
To: "Movietalk Listserv Listserv" <movietalk@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2006 1:08 PM
Subject: [movietalk] ONE the Movie


> Has anyone seen ONE the Movie or Celestine Prophecy?
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> Last milestone I mentioned was 150 members on our listserv, the
> amount is now 163. Also the group is now 5 years old! We had a
> variety of very interesting events in the first years and fewer in
> the last 2 years. The list is underutilized and people should feel
> free to post their film related musings. I would also be interested
> to see a few postings of interesting movie events in the valley.
> From Pothole pictures in Shelburne falls to the 5 colleges, the
> Northampton film festival and the 5 college film festival, Academy of
> Music, Pleasant Street Theatre, Amherst Cinema, Media Education
> Center, and then RealArtways in Hartford -- there are a ton of
> offerings each week that many people don't know about, and no single
> newspaper or website that aggregates all these listings (many of
> which are for excellent free films!). One more thing -- every other
> summer the DEFA film library http://www.umass.edu/defa at Umass
> presents an incredible film festival of Eastern European films that
> would be hard to find elsewhere.
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