Origin: USA Palestine | Documentary | Director: Diana Allen | 54 minutes

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Terrace of the Sea (Jal el Bahar)

Diana Allen 2009 Docu 54 min.

Terrace of the Sea (Jal el Bahar) was shot in 2008 in an unofficial
Palestinian Bedouin gathering established in 1948 on a stretch of beach
north of Tyre, in south Lebanon. Structured around a collection of family
photographs taken over three generations, the film engages with the
historical experience of this community by focusing on their precarious
relationship with the environment, and in particular on the role that the
sea plays in their lives. Terrace of the Sea examines the experiences of
the Ibrahim family - not simply through the prism of nationalist politics,
but also through their relationship to work and to the physical
environment. More broadly, the film is a meditation on the process of
memory and on the distances between photography and film, land and sea and
- between seeing and being seen. Director Diana Allan is codirector of the
Nakba Archive, and an anthropologist specialising in visual and oral
memory.