militant cinema
Razan AlSalah
In this podcast, Palestinian filmmaker, artist, and teacher Razan AlSalah reflects on the role of artistic imagination in the context of ongoing catastrophe and on cinema as a site of gathering, resistance, and rehearsed return. We talk about archives as both evidence and border, the camera as a mediating and potentially violent device, and the ways images are mobilized for population control and self-fulfilling colonial narratives. We also discuss solidarity, censorship and the need to redirect attention toward images produced by resistance movements themselves, not simply as documents of suffering but as tools for reclaiming historical and political agency.