Please note that Silvered Water is available for US audiences only. In letter to a friend, Jacir addresses architect Eyal Weizman, recounting an embodied history of the urban fabric surrounding her family home Dar Jacir.
In the face of distance and borders, these contemporary takes on the essay-film use letter-writing as a visual and conceptual strategy to build affinities and solidarities, creating ingenious strategies of political resistance.
Moonscape , Mona Benyamin, , Palestine, 17 min. The text was first published in Insights into Syrian Cinema: Essays and conversations with contemporary filmmakers.
Rasha Salti. Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait , dir. For You Following. Log in to follow creators, like videos, and view comments. Log in. Silvered Water Syria Self Portrait 1. Watch popular content from the following creators: xkylar xkylartv , jaypalfreytravel jaypalfreytravel ,.. Explore the latest videos from hashtags: selftanningwater, syringewater, sevawater. Stories 2. Pretending like it is not so that you don't have to be just SO bothered and offended by having to watch it and not allowing their story to be told, is the real problem.
This absolutely was a hard piece to watch but the awareness it brings is more powerful than anything. These people used these phones as a means of political resistance. Many of them are using phones to film for the first time.
SO this is very much a commentary on filming, mobile phones, and the use of technology as a tool for political resistance and a way for us to see inside a place that is so censored in our public media. The camera's ability to share knowledge and images of events that otherwise would have been buried by a veil of secrecy makes this a most difficult watch, replete with countless deaths, both on- and offscreen, and enough violence and brutality to nearly make me regret rewatching this, even taking its poetic richness into account.
The film structures itself as something of a conversation between the two filmmakers, and even more elementally, between the dozens of amateur filmmakers whose images, originally posted to social media sites, allow the likely unprecedented access that Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait has to the horrors occurring in Syria in the early s.
The structure is not without its issues: by melding these images into sectioned buckets…. Silvered Water takes a unique approach to filmmaking in its use of the points of view of many individuals affected by the crisis in Syria.
The film uses video filmed on cell phones and posted online and connects these short clips into a cohesive documentary that forms its thesis through conversation in two ways. The first is through the editing together of these clips themselves. By virtue of having come from such a wide number of sources, we are able to get a glimpse at the current state of Syria so broad that most films would hardly come close to this one in terms of scope.
The repetition of certain shots like one of a teenaged prisoner being tortured stand…. Letterboxd is an independent service created by a small team, and we rely mostly on the support of our members to maintain our site and apps. Where to watch. Directors Ossama Mohammed Wiam Bedirxan. Studios Proaction Film Les Films d'ici. Genre documentary. I wish I had not watched this alone.
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