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Dani Gal’s cinematic and activist engagements with Israel/Palestine in Germany

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dc.creatorZelnick, Sharon
dc.date.accessioned2023-01-26T09:53:54Z
dc.date.available2023-01-26T09:53:54Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractThis essay contributes to current debates about the problematic conflation of support for Palestinians with anti-Semitism in Germany by focusing on the cinematic and activist work of Dani Gal, an Israeli migrant in Berlin. Gal’s film, White City (2018), deals with intersections between memories of the Holocaust and the Nakba by reformatting archival materials – namely, a Nazi propaganda postcard and Zionist leader Arthur Ruppin’s diary – in ways that rethink migrations of architectural aesthetics and racist practices. By upending the expectation to document the past, the photographic stills in White City instead performatively reimagine historical and contemporary predicaments around ethnic discrimination in Germany and Israel/Palestine. By bringing together the proximal victimisation Jews and Palestinians suffered from the Holocaust and the Nakba, as well as the linked perpetrator pasts of some Zionists and Nazis, White City inspires us to understand the power of ‘multidirectional memory’ and ‘cocitizenship’ anew.en
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/19200
dc.identifier.urihttps://necsus-ejms.org/dani-gals-cinematic-and-activist-engagements-withisrael- palestine-in-germany/
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/20371
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherNECS
dc.publisher.place
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2213-0217
dc.relation.ispartofseriesNECSUS_European Journal of Media Studies
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectfuture-oriented photographyen
dc.subjectIsraelis in Berlinen
dc.subjectpostcards in filmen
dc.subjectHolocaust/Nakba memoriesen
dc.subjectcocitizenshipen
dc.subject.ddcddc:791
dc.subject.ddcddc:300
dc.titleDani Gal’s cinematic and activist engagements with Israel/Palestine in Germanyen
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local.coverpage2023-01-27T13:40:35
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttps://necsus-ejms.org/dani-gals-cinematic-and-activist-engagements-withisrael- palestine-in-germany/
local.source.epage248
local.source.issue2
local.source.issueTitle#Materiality
local.source.spage226
local.source.volume11

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