Palestine through exilic Kino-eye : reclaiming space in Palestinian fiction film -

Abstract

In my research, I focus on exilic fiction film as the medium through which Palestine can be individualized and told through personal tales. By approaching Palestine through post-colonialism, I show how Elia Suleiman, an exilic filmmaker, grapples with an occupied space, within and beyond territorial boundaries of land. The re-articulation of filmic space depicted through formal film analysis and textual analysis, is perceived in the context of this study as a disruption of meta-narratives, both the Palestinian nationalist and the Zionist. Hence, the aim of the study is to highlight the role of fiction film in the emergence of an alternative spatial conception of Palestine. By so doing, fiction film becomes an opportunity through which filmmakers open up possibilities for Palestine to be told through fragments of chronicles and multiple narrations situated within the liminalities of reality and imagination.