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Paradiso, XXXI, 108

As chilling as it is absurd, Kamal Aljafari’s Paradiso repurposes found footage from Israeli military propaganda and turns it into a fictional drama of men playing at war. Aljafari takes the title from a short story by Borges and describes the work as a “cinematic self-portrait” – questioning our interpretation of screen violence, its relationship to real-world horrors, and troubling our positionality as spectators.

Director

Kamal Aljafari

Countries

Germany Palestine

Year

2022

Premiere

UK Premiere

Dialogue Language

Hebrew

Subtitle Language

Primary Contact

Flavia Mazzarino

Duration

18 mins

Editor

Yannig Willmann

Sound design

Attila Faravelli