Fillip #16

(Olaf Nicolai project + Ariella Aïsha Azoulay pamphlet)

Contributing writers Ariella Azoulay (Israel), Elle Flanders (Toronto), and Tamira Sawatzky (Toronto) and Fillip Associate Editor Kate Steinmann (Chicago). Join us for an evening of film, food, and conversation at Beit Zatoun, a Toronto-based Palestinian cultural centre.

Azoulay, a renowned photography historian, curator, writer, and filmmaker, will show an excerpt from her recently completed film Civil Alliance, Palestine, 1947–1948 (2012), which reconstructs what can be described as a civil race against the clock that took place in Palestine in the months leading up to the founding of the State of Israel, in May 1948.

Award-winning Toronto-area architect-filmmakers Flanders and Sawatzky (Public Studio) will screen an excerpt from their acclaimed film Road Movie (2011), which takes viewers on journeys along the segregated roads of the West Bank. Flanders and Sawatzky will also present excerpts from their new project West Bank Atlas, commissioned for Fillip 16.