01 MAY — 11 MAY 2025

01 MAY — 11 MAY 2025

Honouring the cinematographic work of Palestinian director Kamal Aljafari

Retrospective Kamal Aljafari

Honouring the cinematographic work of Palestinian director Kamal Aljafari

In partnership with Cinemateca Portuguesa, and with the presence of visual artist and filmmaker Kamal Aljafari, we give space to the simple and enormous subversive act of giving visibility to the invisible that is the counter-cinema present in his work. Making present what otherwise seems to be absent from the dominant narrative has always been at the heart of Aljafari’s creation. The author’s work increasingly expands the conceptual and formal delimitations imposed by conventional cinematic grammar and explores a new territory of political cinema that claims a possible “cinematic justice” in the face of reality, which goes far beyond objective historicism, the didactic documentary of social concerns. Subjectivity prevails while the idea of cinema as a tool of colonization and oppression is deconstructed. From a corporeal presence, accompanied by voice-over in The Roof, to hybrid melancholy in what will be his closest work to fiction in Port of Memory, where he has already incorporated, in a dialectical way, excerpts from an American action film with Chuck Norris fighting Palestinian terrorists or the Israeli musical Kazablan. Later, we see him explore poetic and reappropriation potential, diving head first into the most varied archival materials and found footage in the following films, always accompanied by rigorous sound work. A cinematic occupation that functions as an act of resistance.

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