Terrace of the sea = Jal al-baḥr / produced at the Film Study Center, Harvard University ; camera and editing, Diana Allan.

"Terrace of the Sea was shot in 2008 in Jal el Bahar, a Palestinian Bedouin gathering established in 1948 on a strip of coast in South Lebanon. The film is a meditation on the distances between memory, photography and film and explores the relationships between past and present, land and sea and bet...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Jal al-baḥr (Motion picture)
Sensory Ethnography Lab (Series)
Corporate Authors: Harvard University. Film Study Center (Production company)
Cinema Guild (Film distributor)
Other Authors: Allan, Diana (Diana Keown) (Filmmaker)
Language:Arabic
English
Language of the Original:
Arabic
Language and/or Writing System:
Arabic with English subtitles.
Published: [Cambridge, Mass.] : Film Study Center, Harvard University, [2009]
Series:Sensory Ethnography Lab (Series)
Subjects:
Refugee camps > Lebanon.
Palestinian Arabs > Lebanon.
Refugees > Lebanon.
Refugees > Palestine.
Fishers > Lebanon.
Fishers.
Palestinian Arabs.
Refugee camps.
Refugees.
Lebanon.
Middle East > Palestine.
Documentary films.
Ethnographic films.
Nonfiction films.
Feature films.
Genre:
Documentary films.
Ethnographic films.
Nonfiction films.
Feature films.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (53 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Variant Title:
Jal al-baḥr
Format: Video DVD
Description
Summary:
"Terrace of the Sea was shot in 2008 in Jal el Bahar, a Palestinian Bedouin gathering established in 1948 on a strip of coast in South Lebanon. The film is a meditation on the distances between memory, photography and film and explores the relationships between past and present, land and sea and between seeing and being seen"--Container.
"Jal el Bahr is an unofficial Palestinian camp that was established in 1948 on a stretch of beach near Tyre. Around 2500 Palestinian Bedouin live in this community without residency rights. The land has been marked as a site for imminent development"--End credits.
Note:Originally produced at the Film Study Center, Harvard University in 2009.
Call Number:DS80.55.P34 T47 2009 VideoDVD
ISBN:078151505X
9780781515054
System Details:DVD-R.