Events

The film is available to watch online, co-presented by Mizna and The Mosaic Rooms between 25 and 28 March 2021.

Drawing on footage from a surveillance camera installed by his father following an act of vandalism on the street outside his home, An Unusual Summer (2020) captures fleeting moments of poetry of everyday life in the family and the neighbourhood while in the background, the daily choreography of El Ramle under Israeli occupation comes to the surface.

This program is part of the Mizna Film Series, a monthly selection expanding Mizna’s regular film programming to include screenings, critical essays, filmmaker interviews, and discussions exploring revolutionary forms of cinema from the SWANA region and beyond.

Kamal Aljafari (Palestine, 1972) works with moving and still images, interweaving between fiction, non-fiction, and art. His past films include Recollection (2015), Port of Memory (2009) and The Roof (2006). He was a featured artist at the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar (NYC) and was a Fellow at Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute and Film Study Center. An Unusual Summer premiered at Visions du Réel in 2020.

Kareem Estefan is a writer, editor, art critic and PhD candidate in Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. He is writing a dissertation on witnessing and worldbuilding in contemporary Palestinian visual culture. He has been published in Frieze, Ibraaz, Journal of Palestine Studies and Third Text, among others. He is co-editor, with Carin Kuoni and Laura Raicovich, of Assuming Boycott: Resistance, Agency, and Cultural Production (OR Books, 2017) and associate editor of Creative Time Reports.