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Jaffa, the Orange's Clockwork

Director in Person
$12 Special Event Tickets
Directed by Eyal Sivan.
Israel/France, 2009, digital video, color, 89 min.
Arabic, English, French and Hebrew with English subtitles.

For more than a century, the “Jaffa orange” was one of the leading exports, first from Palestine, then from Israel. An examination of the records of the orange’s production and marketing quickly reveals this history to be one of competing narratives – that of the fruitful Orient, on the one hand, and that of Palestine as a savage desert before the establishing of the state of Israel. Sivan’s examination of these ideological narratives becomes a look back at Jewish and Arab coexistence in Palestine before 1948, cleverly constructed out of the archive of moving and still images dating back to the dawn of photography.

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      Jaffa, the Orange's Clockwork introduction and post-screening discussion with David Pendleton and Eyal Sivan.

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