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Measures of distance / Women Make Movies ; by Mona Hatoum ; a Western Front Video production.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- Arabic
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Refugees--Lebanon.
- Refugees.
- Palestinian Arabs--Israel.
- Palestinian Arabs.
- Mothers and daughters.
- Lebanon--History--Israeli intervention, 1982-1985--Personal narratives.
- Lebanon.
- Lebanon--Politics and government--1975-1990.
- Genre:
- Short films.
- Documentary films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 video file (15 min.)) : sound, color
- Place of Publication:
- [New York, New York] : Women Make Movies, [1988]
- Language Note:
- In English voiceover with Arabic dialogue.
- Summary:
- In this resonant work, Palestinian-born video and performance artist Mona Hatoum explores the renewal of friendship between mother and daughter during a brief family reunion in war-torn Lebanon in 1981. Through letters read in voice-over and Arabic script overlaying the images, the viewer experiences the silence and isolation imposed by war. The politics of the family and the exile of the Palestinian people are inseparable in this forceful, moving film.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed October 7, 2024).
- Publisher Number:
- wm-distan Docuseek2
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