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Dag’aa

Shadi Habib Allah

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Memories for Forgetfulness Elsewhere | V. Today Dag’aa
Shadi Habib Allah
2015

18 Minutes

Date
February 2–16, 2022

Palestinian filmmaker Shadi Habib Allah embarks on an unlikely journey across the heavily militarized Sinai Peninsula in Egypt, a journey led by a network of Bedouin smugglers who intuitively navigate an unmapped terrain. The only signposts are the stories they share about the stakes of living, dying, and moving through this precarious liminal space. Anecdotes transition into directions and allegiances are blurred, as is the state of the Bedouins, who remain unrecognized citizens of this no man’s land.
Habib Allah is led behind the lines of military checkpoints, off the political, economic, and historical grid, through a space where these Bedouins quietly maintain their traditions with the help of snakes.

Shadi Habib Allah’s Dag’aa is presented within Today, the last of five chapters in Memories for Forgetfulness Elsewhere, an online film program curated by Irmgard Emmelhainz for e-flux Video & Film. The program streams in five thematic group screenings each two weeks long, and will be accompanied by two live discussions on February 2 and 15.

For more information, contact program@e-flux.com.

Category
Land & territory, Film
Subject
Middle East, Landscape, Folklore & Tradition
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Shadi Habib Allah

(b. 1977, Jerusalem, Palestine) received his MFA from Columbia University in 2010. He was the 2012 recipient of the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award. His work has been exhibited at Artist Space, Hammer Museum, the Renaissance Society, and the New Museum Triennial amongst other venues. His films have been shown at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, the 15th edition of Courtisane Festival, the 32nd International Kurz Film Festival in Hamburg, Kort Film Festival in Norway, and International Short Film Festival Oberhausen. He lives and works between Berlin and Palestine.

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