Foragers
- 2022
- Palestine
- 64'
- Arabic, Hebrew
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© Jumana Manna -
© Jumana Manna -
© Jumana Manna
The dramas around the practice of foraging for wild edible plants in Palestine/Israel. For Palestinians, the Israeli nature protection laws constitute an ecological veil for legislation that further dispossesses them from their land while the occupation’s state representatives insist on their scientific expertise and duty to protect.
Jumana Manna is a visual artist and filmmaker based in Jerusalem and Berlin.Through sculpture, filmmaking, and writing, Manna deals with the paradoxes of preservation practices, particularly within the fields of architecture, agriculture and law. Her practice considers the tension between the modernist traditions of categorisation and conservation and the unruliness of ruination, life and its regeneration. Manna is Moving Image Associate Chair at Bard’s MFA program, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. She was previously a visiting lecturer at Harvard University, the Academy of Fine Arts Munich, and has taught at Homeworks Space Program, Beirut and Birzeit University, Palestine. Jumana is represented by Hollybush Gardens Gallery, and her films are distributed by LUX.
- Subtitles : original version with French subtitles
- Production : Jumana Manna
- Photography : Marte Vold, Yaniv Linton, Ashraf Dowani
- Sound : Montaser Abu ‘Alul, Raja Dubayah, Ibrahim Zaher
- Editing : Katrin Ebersohn, Jumana Manna
- Music : Rashad Becker
