Using images shared on the Internet by Israelis during the Gulf War, the First Intifada and trance music gatherings, Shuruq Harb composes the portrait of a Palestinian teenager in the 1990s, in the distorted mirror of Israeli pop culture.
Duration : 12.11
Release date : 2018
Country : Palestine
Biography
Is an artist, filmmaker and writer based in Ramallah. Her artistic practice focuses on online visual culture and traces subversive routes for the circulation of images and goods. Her film ‘The White Elephant’ received the award for best short film at Cinema du Reel Festival in Paris, 2018, and was shortlisted for the Hamburg International Short Film Festival, 2019. She is the recipient of the Han Nefkens Foundation– Fundació Antoni Tàpies Video Art Production Award (2019).The White Elephant, 12 min (2018).Using images shared on the Internet by Israelis during the Gulf War, the First Intifada and trance music gatherings, The White Elephant decomposes the portrait of a Palestinian teenager in the 1990s, through the distorted mirror of Israeli pop culture.
Shuruq Harb Director of The White Elephant