I'm not in the business of saying just one thing about just one place. If you only see Palestine in my films, then I've failed because then I'm just a provincial filmmaker.
I don't want what you see on the screen to just be a brief notion of pleasure but something that lingers. The idea is to have the images revisited. I… - Elia Suleiman
I don't want what you see on the screen to just be a brief notion of pleasure but something that lingers. The idea is to have the images revisited. I…
- Elia Suleiman
What cinema can do is the reordering of this reality from a certain chaos or from a certain order into an aesthetic dimension. - Elia Suleiman
What cinema can do is the reordering of this reality from a certain chaos or from a certain order into an aesthetic dimension.
I'm trying to use Palestine as a microcosm of the world, but maybe the world is a microcosm of Palestine. We're living in a moment that has lost atta… - Elia Suleiman
I'm trying to use Palestine as a microcosm of the world, but maybe the world is a microcosm of Palestine. We're living in a moment that has lost atta…
People in power tend to find poetry dangerous to them because it is dislocating, they can't catch it, can't control it. They prefer coherence, what's… - Elia Suleiman
People in power tend to find poetry dangerous to them because it is dislocating, they can't catch it, can't control it. They prefer coherence, what's…
If a person just takes what is socio-political and geographical from the themes of my films then that's not enough. But if the person goes out of the… - Elia Suleiman
If a person just takes what is socio-political and geographical from the themes of my films then that's not enough. But if the person goes out of the…
It's crucial to choose your work place - some places lend themselves to you and others don't. - Elia Suleiman
It's crucial to choose your work place - some places lend themselves to you and others don't.
I don't think you can strategize to be poetic and neither can you strategize to be funny. It is not a tool, it is itself - it comes from the moment, … - Elia Suleiman
I don't think you can strategize to be poetic and neither can you strategize to be funny. It is not a tool, it is itself - it comes from the moment, …
I think that whatever we express in terms of the potential truth is above all else about mobilizing ourselves for ourselves. We learn about ourselves… - Elia Suleiman
I think that whatever we express in terms of the potential truth is above all else about mobilizing ourselves for ourselves. We learn about ourselves…
I do not teach history in my films. I don't have a linear point of view or argument. What I do in my films is to live the human experience; human, wh… - Elia Suleiman
I do not teach history in my films. I don't have a linear point of view or argument. What I do in my films is to live the human experience; human, wh…
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