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