Origin: Palestine | Documentary | Director: Ayman Azraq | 6 minutes

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Oslo Syndrome (see also: Suspended Time)

by Ayman Azraq Palestine 2013 documentary 6 min.

The year 2013 brought the Oslo Agreement to the spotlight all over again. It brought me back to 20 years ago, when I had a dream now lost. This dream haunts me again. I feel as if I’m sitting in a train station watching trains and people come and go. They all have a destination to reach as I wait for a train that might never arrive.

About the Filmmaker: Ayman Azraq is a Palestinian artist and filmmaker, born and raised in Bethlehem. He earned his MA degree in Fine Arts from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts in Oslo where he currently lives and works. Since 2002 he had worked as an editor, director and cameraman in multiple film projects. His short film “The Passport” was screened at the National Museum of Cinema in Turin (Italy), Cologne International Video Art Festival (Germany), among other places. His video and photography installation You From Now On Are Not Yourself was screened in venues in Spain, Norway, Denmark and the Gaza Strip. In 2012 he was an artist in residency in UNIDEE – University of Ideas at the Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistoletto in Biella (Italy), where he produced Lets Talk About Wome and Football”, a performance collaboration between the locals of Biella and other artists in the residency.