Name: Film Screening: "There is a Field" on Palestinian and Black Solidarity
Start: 2024-03-26T18:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-03-26T20:30:00-04:00
Location: Columbia University

Film Screening: "There is a Field" on Palestinian and Black Solidarity

Jewish Voice for Peace/Students for Justice in Palestine Columbia/Barnard

The film, set in Palestine and performed by BIPOC BLM activists in the US, builds solidarity across intersectional struggles for liberation

Columbia University

<a href="https://youtu.be/kk5Xb7EeEZA" title="https://youtu.be/kk5Xb7EeEZA" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Trailer</a>Support the film <a href="https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/donkeysaddle-projects" title="https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/donkeysaddle-projects" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">here</a>Screening of "There is a Feild" for Palestinian Solidarty Month. We will have a screening of the film followed by a panel with the film's director Jen Marlowe and NYC based acitivsts. This film explores state sanctioned violence by the police in the US and the IOF SynopsisIn October 2000, a police officer shot and killed unarmed 17-year old Asel Asleh. His story is tragically familiar for Americans, but Asel was not killed in Ferguson, New York City, Atlanta, or Minneapolis. Asel was a Palestinian teenager who was murdered by Israeli police as he participated in a demonstration, calling for an end to the Israeli occupation and settler-colonization.There Is A Field began as a play about Asel’s life and his death, told from the perspective of his older sister, Nardin. Through Nardin’s struggle to cope with the murder of her brother, the play offers a uniquely personal lens for learning about intersecting systems of oppression, including Zionism, Jewish supremacy and white supremacy—root causes of state-sanctioned violence and structural racism.Donkeysaddle Projects (DSP) filmed a performance-reading of There Is A Field at the Peñasco Theatre Collective in 2018, performed by activists, artists and organizers from the Movement for Black Lives. There Is A Field film weaves together their performance with archival footage of Asel, and the activists’ own realizations of the parallels they see between Asel’s story and the experiences of Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) communities in the United States. The film, set in Palestine and performed by BIPOC artists and activists in the US, builds solidarity across intersectional struggles for liberation and decolonization, and is sure to spark conversation and connection.

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