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Falastin quote

By Mary Rizzo • May 17th, 2008 at 8:00 • Category: Falastin, Quotes

I am not asking people to empathise with anything; this is not a demand or a desire. The first thing for the spectator to do is have pleasure. The fact that they go and aestheticise a life beyond the film is for me an expression of support for the Palestinian people. I feel Israel is a microcosm of occupation and I think that the world is being globally occupied and this adds to a self-reflexive reading on the part of spectators all across the world who relate to it through their own personal experience.
Elia Suleiman, filmmaker and actor

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Mary Rizzo is an art restorer, translator and writer living in Italy. Editor and co-founder of Palestine Think Tank, co-founder of Tlaxcala translations collective. Her personal blog is Peacepalestine.
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