![]() ![]() Those audience members looking for a history lesson, linear point, or argument, are in the wrong theater. ![]() “It is not my fault that when I go to Ramallah there is a checkpoint and therefore it enters my film.”įor Suleiman, who stars in, writes, and directs his own projects, his films are meant simply to live the human experience. The award-winning Palestinian director on his latest and most personal film, Israel’s moral army, and the power of silence.Ĭould an Israeli soldier, tank, or checkpoint appearing in one of Elia Suleiman’s films be no different than a pushy New Yorker, speeding cab, or the Carnegie Deli appearing in one of Woody Allen’s films? “The desire to express in an art form and to compose a tableau and vignette, whether it’s humorous, burlesque, or poetic comes simply from a desire to compose an image for cinema,” he says in the interview that follows.
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