Saturday, September 28th, 2024, –
TIFF Lightbox 350 King St W, Toronto, Cinema 2
We are excited to co-present the World Premiere of Vtape artist bh Yael’s Letter To My Tribe at this year’s Toronto Palestine Film Festival (TPFF). For more details and tickets, please visit TPFF’s website.
Letter To My Tribe
English, translated Hebrew & Arabic
Letter to My Tribe started with a question: Why don’t more Jews and Israelis speak out about Palestine? Over many years my mother, who represents a more messianic perspective, and I have had numerous arguments, some recorded, some not. These form the backbone of this video essay in which Israelis and Jews, journalists, activists and a rabbi are interviewed, and in which documentation of actions on the ground, in the West Bank, are woven with more personal family histories and journeys to Iraq and to Poland.
b.h. Yael is a Toronto-based filmmaker, video and installation artist. She is Professor of Integrated Media at OCAD University, past Chair of Senate and past Assistant Dean.
Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in various settings, from festivals to galleries to community and activist groups and at various educational venues. She has received numerous arts grants, including the Chalmers Fellowship award. Her essay film Trading the Future won the Audience Award at the Ecofilms festival in Rhodes, Greece.
Yael’s films and installations have dealt with the many intersections of identity and family; it has focused on activist initiatives in Palestine/Israel, as well as apocalypse, geopolitical and environmental urgencies. Select titles include: Fresh Blood, A Consideration of Belonging; In the Middle of the Street; and Palestine Trilogy. Collaborative and collective projects include Spontaneous Combustion; the Olive Project by the Hardpressed Collective; BlahBlahBlah: Re(viewing) Quebec; and the Approximations series with Johanna Householder. Yael has also programmed arts lectures and media screenings, especially the Art Creates Change series at OCADU.
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