“PARADISO, XXXI, 108” SCREENING
March 22nd, 20:30
︎︎︎AFLAM Film Festival, Marseille
“A partir d’images détournées tirées d’un matériel de propagande militaire israélien des années 1960-1970, le film montre des hommes qui jouent à la guerre. Se référant par son titre à Borges et Dante qui discutaient l’impossibilité de connaître l’image de Dieu, Al Jafari dénonce en contrepoint la violence d’une armée qui se double d’une représentation d’elle-même.”
︎︎︎https://www.aflam.fr/mercredi-22-mars-i-20h30-i-paradiso-i-mucem-i-xxxi-108-foragers/
“PARADISO, XXXI, 108” FILM SCREENING
March 4th 2023
︎︎︎IFFA Independent Film Festival Athens, KINO Athens
“Culled from Israeli military propaganda materials from the ‘60s and ‘70s, Paradiso, XXI, 108 regards (with irony) towards a “cinematic self-portrait of men playing war”, to quote its author. Kamal Aljafari works here with a network of intertextual quotations – Sebald, Borges, Alighieri – to create a conceptual counterpoint to the images on the screen”.
︎︎︎https://www.kinoathens.org/paradiso
“A FIDAI FILM” FUNDING
︎︎︎Medienboard Berlin Brandeburg, Experimentalfilm
A Fidai Film is supported by the Experimentalfilm Program of Medienboard, in Berlin.
︎︎︎https://www.medienboard.de/en/foerderung-film/
“PARADISO, XXXI, 108” FILM EXHIBITION
March 3rd to 5th 2023
︎︎︎18th Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, Berwick-upon-Tweed (UK)
“As chilling as it is absurd, Kamal Aljafari’s Paradiso repurposes found footage from Israeli military propaganda and turns it into a fictional drama of men playing at war. Aljafari takes the title from a short story by Borges and describes the work as a “cinematic self-portrait” – questioning our interpretation of screen violence, its relationship to real-world horrors, and troubling our positionality as spectators.”
︎︎︎https://bfmaf.org/programme/paradiso-xxxi-108/