Diana Allan
Still Life: Experiences of Palestinian Exile
October 2, 2017
Film Screening: Still Life: Experiences of Palestinian Exile (2007)
The importance of place and memory in preserving a people’s history are crucial to Diana Allan’s illuminating documentary. Still Life examines the role that a series of personal photos that survived the 1948 displacement play in the life of Said Ismael Otruk, an elderly Palestinian from Acre now living in exile in Lebanon. These images play a central role as Said recalls his childhood and the halcyon days of his youth. His memories are not always accurate, so he relies on the photographs he managed to take with him. Learn more.
