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One year has passed since 7 October, 76 years since 1948. Decades of violence have launched a intermittent escalation of hostilities with worldwide repercussions and interconnected disruptions. Programmed as a thematic set on argos TV this fall, three movies Talaeen a junuub / Up to the South, X-mission and Documentary Credit track the violence in the Middle East through the timeline of history.

In this first installment, Talaeen a junuub / Up to the South by Jayce Salloum & Walid Raad opens with self-criticism that ultimately reaches its (Western) audience: “Why do you simplify these issues?”, suggesting a distance between words and ideas, between reality and (media) representation, between the registering camera and the perceived landscape when it comes to the Palestinian struggle for liberation.

These three films, each consciously bridging a variety of distances in their own way, cover yet another distance today: time. Made over 15 years ago, their reflective attitude and intricate web of emotions instigate new meanings and complexify our dialogues against the backdrop of the current and violent geopolitical events in the Middle East.

3 October to 7 November
Talaeen a junuub / Up to the south
Jayce Salloum & Walid Raad, 1993

7 November to 5 December
X-Mission
Ursula Biemann, 2008

5 December to 2 January
Documentary Credit
Eva Meyer & Eran Schaerf, 1999