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Le film de Samir Abdallah au festival 9 du cinema a Glascow

Lundi, 31 octobre 2011 - 7h08 AM

lundi 31 octobre 2011

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« GAZA on air »

Samir Abdallah, Egypt, 2010, 90mins

The assault on Gaza in 2008 by the Israeli Defence Force was well-covered by the international media. We’ve all seen the images replayed a thousand times. Or have we ? And what of the people who made it their job to get the world those images ?

A selection of Palestinian journalists/camera operators describe their experiences of trying to report from frontline Gaza amidst the assault and the effect on them as individuals of what they witnessed, recorded and lived through. Cutting between interviews and the- sometimes literally- raw footage they shot of carnage, death and destruction, this builds into a powerful discourse on the moral dilemma of media in a war zone- does your duty as a journalist to keep on filming the horror as an act of witness outweigh your duty as a human being to put down the camera and come to the aid of the afflicted ?

Be warned : this film contains deeply harrowing uncensored images that were not shown in full on any international news network- the real images of war which the conventional media routinely edits out as too graphic and disturbing. You won’t see this version of the Gaza assault on the BBC or CNN any time soon…

The reflections of the journalists on what it was like to witness these events yet keep on filming are intelligent, articulate and tragic. Taking its place beside previous Document highlights such as ‘Prisoner Of The Caucasus’ which did the same for the conflict in Chechnya, ‘Gaza On Air’ provides a sobering post-mortem on the politics of the assault and a thought-provoking meditation on the role of media in war.