GRAMNet Film Series StripLife and Fragments of Gaza
Wed 11 May 2016

StripLife and the Fragments of Gaza
StripLife
An inexplicable event has occurred during the night: dozens of manta rays stranded on the beach in Gaza City. Fishermen hasten from the whole Strip to grab some fresh meat. Meanwhile the city is awakening. Antar spurs his brother to get up, today is the great day, in the afternoon he will record his first disk. Noor puts her make up on, she must appear in front of the television cameras. Jabber is already in the field. The shots of the rifles remind him that he lives in the buffer zone that separates Gaza from Israel. A demonstration is going on in the streets. Moemen is there, doing his job as photographer. At the port a boat returns with the hull riddled by shots. The chant of the muezzin invades the space, multiplied by the minarets. As in a dream, the boys of the Parkour Team pirouette in a cemetery.
An insight into everyday life in the Gaza Strip.
Documentary: Italy/Palestine (2013)
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Fragments of Gaza
Edited and directed by Basharat Khan and GRAMNet, this collection of mobile clips, videos, and stories, filmed by the people of Gaza, portrays multiple threads of everyday life and brings together image and sound that otherwise disappear from fleeting social media.
Palestine/Scotland (2016)