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Jumana Manna: Foragers
Foragers depicts the dramas around the practice of foraging for wild edible plants in Palestine/Israel with wry humor and a meditative pace. Shot in the Golan Heights, the Galilee and Jerusalem, it employs fiction, documentary and archival footage to portray the impact of Israeli nature protection laws on these customs.
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Jumana Manna: Foragers
Foragers depicts the dramas around the practice of foraging for wild edible plants in Palestine/Israel with wry humor and a meditative pace. Shot in the Golan Heights, the Galilee and Jerusalem, it employs fiction, documentary and archival footage to portray the impact of Israeli nature protection laws on these customs.
The restrictions prohibit the collection of the artichoke-like ’akkoub and za’atar (thyme), and have resulted in fines and trials for hundreds caught collecting these native plants. For Palestinians, these laws constitute an ecological veil for legislation that further alienates them from their land while Israeli state representatives insist on their scientific expertise and duty to protect. Foragers captures the joy and knowledge embodied in these foraging traditions alongside their resilience to the prohibitive law.
Organized as part of the Art Explora festival, in collaboration with the Hiba Foundation and TAP (Temporary Art Platform). The film is part of the Undertow exhibition / We Knew How Beautiful They Were, These Islands film program curated by Amanda Abi Khalil and Danielle Makhoul.
Jumana Manna
Palestinian artist Jumana Manna (born in 1987, New Jersey, currently based in Berlin and Jerusalem) holds degrees from CalArts, the National Academy of the Arts in Oslo, and the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem. Through her films and sculptures, Manna examines how social, political, and interpersonal power dynamics interact with the human body. Her films blend fact and fiction, biographical details, and archival materials to investigate the construction of historical and national narratives. Her more abstract sculptures reflect on the calcifications of memory, represented through real or fabricated objects.
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Immersive exhibition "Présentes
Created with the exceptional collaboration of the Musée du Louvre, this exhibition highlights female figures in Mediterranean civilization, thanks to the digitization and modeling of part of the Louvre's collections. A two-stage experience: an introductory film to provide context, followed by an immersive experience in a 16-meter-long tunnel covered by 120 m2 of LED screens.
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An immersive sound experience designed by Ircam, inviting the public to explore the richness and diversity of the Mediterranean through headphones equipped with spatialized sound.
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