This is a performance film I created in collaboration with a community of disabled people from a refugee camp in Palestine I lived with in 2019.  It was directed and filmed by a group of men who became disabled due to the Israeli occupation.  A young man who I was living with conducted interviews of these men to inspire the direction.  (They were some of the most harrowing stories I have ever heard - I am not sharing them as per their wish)

 

In the first segment, a father and son reenact the psychological realm of the father, who is now schizophrenic due to torture he endured for 12 years in prison.

 

In the second segment a man reenacts two visions he had while in a coma for several months after being shot in the head protesting leaving him permanently, paralyzed on the left half of his body— In one vision, he is a martyr, and in the other he is defending himself with his people’s weapon- rocks. 

 

In the third scene, the men walk around the refugee camp, carrying the same weapons on their head, ending in a stance from a meaningful mural by Naji Salim Hussain Al-Ali, who was a Palestinian cartoonist noted for the political criticism of the Arab regimes and Israel in his works.  He was shot in the neck and continues his resistance drawings in the other realm.  FREE PALESTINE