Origin: UK | Documentary | Director: Various | Unknown minutes

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British colonial film in Palestine

British Colonial Film in Palestine, 1917 to 1947: Moving Images from the
Imperial Archives.
Though the footage is seldom seen and only now becoming accessible to
researchers, Britain's colonial rule in Palestine was closely recorded on
film. This programme of amateur, government, and newsreel footage from the
period of British rule has been curated with the Colonial Film project
specifically for the 2012 London Palestine Film Festival and represents an
unique opportunity to explore that remarkable visual record in the company
of preeminent scholars and artists. A selection of works spanning the
period by amateur and professional filmmakers will be shown: From
choreographed images of Allenby's triumphant march into Jerusalem in 1917
(a "Christmas present for the British nation"), via "home movies" by troops
surged into Palestine for the counterinsurgency during the Arab Revolt of
the 1930s, to propaganda pieces aimed at glossing the chaotic British
withdrawal from 1947. These extraordinary films, several of which are
silent, will be accompanied by commentary from Francis Gooding of the
Colonial Film project, who will also give a presentation on the story
behind the 1947 Colonial Office work Portrait of Palestine. Francis will
then lead a panel on colonial film archives with artist and filmmaker Kamal
Aljafari (Port of Memory, 2009), historian Ilan Pappe, and anthropologist
Christopher Pinney. Copresented with the Colonial Film project

Website: http://www.colonialfilm.org.uk/country/palestine

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