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.
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…
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'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…
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 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…
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…
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