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*All ticket sales for this screening will be donated to The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children’s Fund, which is dedicated to providing medical attention to the children of Gaza by transporting critically injured children, with their caretakers, from Palestine to Lebanon, where they can receive the best possible medical, psychological, and social care.
***Plays before the feature film, Foragers***
Blessed Blessed Oblivion weaves together a portrait of masculine performativity in East Jerusalem, as manifested in gyms, body shops and hair dressing parlors.
Inspired by Kenneth Anger’s Scorpio Rising (1963), the video uses visual collage and the musical soundtrack as ironic commentary. Anger’s subjects — leather-clad bikers, serve as a counterpoint to the culture Manna attempts to portray, that of stereotyped male “thug” culture in Palestine.
Close-up fragments construct an eroticised and parodic montage of bodies, cars and places, intersected by snippets of dialogue and a monologue about the art of a car wash. Simultaneously psychologizing the characters and seduced by them, Manna finds herself in a double bind similar to the conflicted desire that animates her protagonist as he drifts from abject rants to declamations of heroic poetry and unashamed self-praise.
- Year2010
- Runtime21:19
- LanguageArabic
- CountryPalestine
- Subtitle LanguageEnglish
- SponsorMizna
- DirectorJumana Manna
- Cast"Hamsawi" Ahmad Bashir, Jumana Manna
- CinematographerJumana Manna
- EditorJumana Manna
*All ticket sales for this screening will be donated to The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children’s Fund, which is dedicated to providing medical attention to the children of Gaza by transporting critically injured children, with their caretakers, from Palestine to Lebanon, where they can receive the best possible medical, psychological, and social care.
***Plays before the feature film, Foragers***
Blessed Blessed Oblivion weaves together a portrait of masculine performativity in East Jerusalem, as manifested in gyms, body shops and hair dressing parlors.
Inspired by Kenneth Anger’s Scorpio Rising (1963), the video uses visual collage and the musical soundtrack as ironic commentary. Anger’s subjects — leather-clad bikers, serve as a counterpoint to the culture Manna attempts to portray, that of stereotyped male “thug” culture in Palestine.
Close-up fragments construct an eroticised and parodic montage of bodies, cars and places, intersected by snippets of dialogue and a monologue about the art of a car wash. Simultaneously psychologizing the characters and seduced by them, Manna finds herself in a double bind similar to the conflicted desire that animates her protagonist as he drifts from abject rants to declamations of heroic poetry and unashamed self-praise.
- Year2010
- Runtime21:19
- LanguageArabic
- CountryPalestine
- Subtitle LanguageEnglish
- SponsorMizna
- DirectorJumana Manna
- Cast"Hamsawi" Ahmad Bashir, Jumana Manna
- CinematographerJumana Manna
- EditorJumana Manna