Oraib Toukan "When Things Occur" at Berlinale's Forum Expanded, 2017
Did some audio post-production on this beautiful and moving video from artist Oraib Toukan
From the artist: Based on Skype conversations with Gaza-based photographers, fixers and drivers who were behind specific images that were transmitted from screen to screen in the summer of 2014. The film probes the face of mourning and grief- its digital embodiment, transmission, and representation. It asks how the gaze gets channeled within the digital realm, and how empathy travels. Equally, how the documentary signifier - and its abstraction - operate when viewing suffering from behind one's LCD screen. What exactly is viewing suffering ‘at a distance’- and how many meters or kilometers is that? What is the behavior and political economy of the image of war? And who is the ‘local’ in the representation of war?
It will be screening at the Berlinale's Forum Expanded, up from Feb 9th till the 19th.