Khiam 2000-2007 - programado Vila do Conde
Director Joana Hadjithomas, Khalil Joreige
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Duration 0 min
Synopsis
Proof that a cool, rigid and businesslike form can be very emotional. Six ex-prisoners from a detention camp in southern Lebanon (near the village of Khiam) describe the camp into the camera. After eight years they do it again. No more. No less.The first Khiam film was screened in Rotterdam in 2002, just as virtually all films by the duo have been (this year another one can also be seen: I Want to See). Khiam was a detention camp in southern Lebanon and the film is about the period when the Israeli army used it during the occupation of Southern Lebanon, which lasted from 1982 to 2000. The makers wanted to make a film about the camp in 1999 (during the occupation), but that was impossible. It was not possible to shoot film in the camp. So they chose a radically different form. They asked six ex-prisoners (three men and three women) to describe the camp and life in the camp with as much detail as possible in order to evoke an inner image of the camp. Eight years later, they had the same people evoke an image again. History at work.
Proof that a cool, rigid and businesslike form can be very emotional. Six ex-prisoners from a detention camp in southern Lebanon (near the village of Khiam) describe the camp into the camera. After eight years they do it again. No more. No less.The first Khiam film was screened in Rotterdam in 2002, just as virtually all films by the duo have been (this year another one can also be seen: I Want to See). Khiam was a detention camp in southern Lebanon and the film is about the period when the Israeli army used it during the occupation of Southern Lebanon, which lasted from 1982 to 2000. The makers wanted to make a film about the camp in 1999 (during the occupation), but that was impossible. It was not possible to shoot film in the camp. So they chose a radically different form. They asked six ex-prisoners (three men and three women) to describe the camp and life in the camp with as much detail as possible in order to evoke an inner image of the camp. Eight years later, they had the same people evoke an image again. History at work.