Origin: Unknown | Fiction | Director: Nina Paley | 4 minutes

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This Land is Mine

Nina Paley 2008 animated film 4 min.

"A brief history of the land called Israel / Palestine / Canaan / the Levant."

Ever since her remarkable 2008 animated feature film Sita Sings The Blues,
I've been a great admirer of animator, cartoonist, and free-culture
activist Nina Paley's creative and meta-creative work. The recent situation
in Gaza makes Paley's 2012 animated short film This Land Is Mine - "a brief
history of the land called Israel / Palestine / Canaan / the Levant" -
particularly timely.

Using the visual storytelling tropes of comics and videogames, genres
characterized by expressive over-the-topness, Paley captures the subtleties
and complexities of the interplay of religion, geopolitics, and the fatal
human hunger for power underpinning the region's long history of conflict.
On her blog, Paley offers a viewer's guide to who's killing whom, "because
you can't tell the players without a pogrom." Her work, like Brain
Pickings, is supported through donations, so consider making one on her
site.

http://blog.ninapaley.com/2012/10/01/this-land-is-mine/

Full feature: http://vimeo.com/50531435

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