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Volume 10, Issue 1
  • ISSN: 2047-7368
  • E-ISSN: 2047-7376

Abstract

() (1965) documents Pasolini’s search for an archaic, biblical world within which to set () (1964). Pasolini’s search in Palestine/Israel was eventually abandoned, with being filmed in and around Basilicata. Pasolini’s documentary has proven a fertile object with which Palestinian artists have conducted dialogues. Following Edward Said, this article reads the documentary ‘contrapuntally’ – as a text to be resituated and responded to – through two responses: Ayreen Anastas’s (2005) and Basma Alsharif’s (2017). Examining Alsharif’s engagement with Carlo Levi’s () (1945), the article interrogates Pasolini’s and Levi’s Basilicata and Anastas’ and Alsharif’s responses from Palestine, arguing that the contrapuntal movement between these four works constitutes a ‘dialectical’ cinematic image of Palestine – between image and reality, the archaic and the contemporary.

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