IN CINEMA
CENTERING PALESTINE ON SCREEN
INFILTRATORS
Tickets: $15 General Admission / $7 Reduced Price
Friday, August 9th at 7PM
Co-Presented with Diverse Filmmakers Alliance and Third World Newsreel
Khaled Jarrar, 2012, 70 min.
A visceral road movie that chronicles the daily travails of Palestinians of all backgrounds as they seek routes through, under, around, and over a bewildering matrix of barriers and border walls in the highly militarized West Bank. Alternating between cigarette breaks, detours, waiting, and moving, INFILTRATORS depicts the cunning, unnerving, and constant struggle to defy captivity and occupation.
Post-screening Q&A with filmmaker Khaled Jarrar, moderated by Hussein Omar!
Khaled Jarrar (b. 1976, Jenin) lives and works in Ramallah, Palestine. Jarrar completed his education in Interior Design at the Palestine Polytechnic University in 1996, and graduated from the International Academy of Art Palestine with a Bachelor in Visual Arts in 2011, and from the University of Arizona with an MFA in 2019. With photographs, videos, installations, films, and performances that are focused on his native Palestine, artist Khaled Jarrar explores the impact of modern-day power struggles on ordinary citizens while seeking to maximize the social potential of artistic interventions. Over the last decade, Jarrar has used the subject of Palestine, particularly the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, as a starting point for larger investigations of militarized societies, including the gendered spaces of violence and the links between economic and state powers that fuel and profit from war or political conflict.
Diverse Filmmakers Alliance is a group of documentary, narrative, experimental, and transmedia filmmakers from diverse backgrounds who meet weekly to workshop our media projects. Our goal is to provide and receive feedback designed to make our media projects more fundable, watchable, entertaining, educational, and ready to meet their audience.
Third World Newsreel (TWN) is an alternative media arts organization that fosters the creation, appreciation, preservation and dissemination of independent film and video by and about people of color and social justice issues. It does this through educational distribution, exhibition, production, media training, fiscal sponsorship and archival preservation. www.twn.org
