Jean Chamoun

تلّ الزعتر (١٩٧٧)، ٢٠١٤

Emily Jacir, Pino Adriano

Directed by Mustafa Abu Ali, Pino Adriano and Jean Chamoun, Tel al Zaatar was the only Palestinian and Italian co-production between the Palestinian Cinema Institution and Unitelfilm. The film’s subject is the August 12, 1976 massacre of Palestinians and Lebanese at Tel al Zaatar, a UN-administered refugee camp in northeast Beirut. Tel al Zaatar reconstructs the history of the camp, its destruction and its resistance through the voices of the men, women and children who survived the massacre. In January 2013, Monica Maurer and Emily Jacir dedicated themselves to salvaging the rushes, restoring and digitizing them, in order to make them available to the public and to safeguard them as part of the Palestinian collective memory. Jacir has edited a work from her selection of the collection and created a soundscape to go with it from the original sound.