Palestine Remembered



Credits

Director Dominique Dubosc
Drawings Daniel Maja
Editing Dominique Dubosc and Bernard Josse
Music JS Bach and Munir Bachir
Production Kinofilm


Synopsis

In July 2002, the designer Maja Daniel was invited to Palestine by the Consulate of France in Jerusalem and the Palestinian Ministry of Culture, to revive a project drawing schools in Ramallah and Gaza.

Dominique Dubosc decided to accompany him.

Dominique's project was not to account the 'Maja mission' (from the beginning doomed to failure because of the curfew imposed on major cities in the West Bank, and Israeli incursions ravaging Gaza), but to create a movie showing Dominique and Maja's different perspectives.

All throughout the spring of 2003, one day a week, Maja agreed to improvise under the eye of the camera, drawing images that evoke both Palestine and a wider world, filled with his usual bestiary.

Dominique then spent several months with an editor to rework the images shot on the spot to give them a painterly quality, and added background music, to evoke a sense of memory.

The film that results from these two elaborations is the memory of a journey, or rather, a journey in the memory of two travellers.