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Hop Film: The Time That Remains

Palestinian writer/director Elia Suleiman's exquisite semi-biographical drama recounts the creation of the Israeli state from 1948 to the present.

7/18/2024
7:00 pm – 8:45 pm
Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center
Intended Audience(s): Public
Categories: Films
Registration required. Fee required. Tickets required.

Palestinian writer/director Elia Suleiman's exquisite semi-biographical drama recounts the creation of the Israeli state from 1948 to the present.

Arab Israeli screenwriter Sayed Kashua has curated this film for the course he is teaching this summer on "The Politics of Israel and Palestine," and will introduce the film.

Subtitled "Chronicle of a Present Absentee," this humorous, heartbreaking film (the final installment in a trilogy that includes Chronicle of a Disappearance and Divine Intervention) is set among the Israeli Arab community and shot largely in homes and places in which writer/director Suleiman's family once lived. Inspired by his father's diaries, letters his mother sent to family members who had fled the Israeli occupation, and the director's own recollections, the film spans from 1948 until the present, recounting the saga of Suleiman's family in elegantly stylized episodes. Inserting himself as a silent observer reminiscent of Buster Keaton, Suleiman trains a keen eye on the absurdities of life in Nazareth.

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For more information, contact:
Hopkins Center for the Arts
Hopkins.Center.for.the.Arts@dartmouth.edu
603 646 2422
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