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House (12A*) + Introduction by Gali Gold

House

A man stands in front of a new house in the desert.

The first film in Amos Gitai's trilogy follows the residents of a home in West-Jerusalem from Palestinians forced to leave after the 1948 war, to Jewish Algerian immigrants, to its new Israeli owners.

This ground-breaking documentary made over 40 years ago, chronicles the story of a house in West-Jerusalem: firstly owned by a Palestinian Doctor who was forced to leave during the 1948 war; appropriated by the Israeli government as 'vacant'; rented to Jewish Algerian immigrants in 1956; and then purchased by an Israeli university professor who turned it into an affluent multi story property. To do so, he has to bring stones from a quarry near Yatta, in the West Bank, and Palestinian workers from refugee camps around Hebron.

House is both a literal and a metaphorical manifestation of the multiple narratives at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, existing under the same “roof” and a depiction of the way they have been embodied in the life of the multiple residents of a single Jerusalem house. 

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1980, Israel, Amos Gitai, 60 min

Arabic, Hebrew, English with English subs

This 3 part programme, presented alongside Barbican Theatre production House presents Amos Gitai’s documentary trilogy, an archaeological excavation of the multiple narratives which cross ways under the same roof of a West Jerusalem house.

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