Cinema On Demand: Letter to a Friend + Triple Chaser (12A*)

In Letter to a Friend, artist Emily Jacir writes to Eyal after a military situation leaves her street strewn with empty canisters of Triple Chaser, a particularly destructive type of teargas. She intimately recounts the street’s history and her family’s past. Interlacing images and sounds from over a century, Jacir unravels layers of Bethlehem, and the constant threat it lives under.

Forensic Architecture teamed with Academy Award winning Laura Poitras to make Triple Chaser. A combination of data-visualization and documentary filmmaking shows how teargas and bullets made by companies that belonged to Kanders have been used against civilians to suppress anti-authoritarian movements.

This includes a pre-recorded Q&A with Emily Jacir (Filmmaker), Eyal Weizmann (Founding Director, Forensic Architecture) and Michael Rakowitz (Artist).