Event overview
UPF Urban Encounters Panelist Judy Price Screens 'White Oil'
White Oil (2014) is a single screen film that excavates a number of narratives around the quarries in the Occupied Palestinian Territories of the West Bank.
The film was made over a period of three years and is premised on a practice where intersubjective relations were one of the most important features in the making of this film.
There are over 350 quarries in the Occupied Palestinian Territories of the West Bank. The stone excavated has been termed the 'white oil' of Palestine and is the only raw material available to support the Palestinian economy and provides a livelihood for over 20,000 workers.
However, of the stone and sand excavated from the quarries 65% is expropriated by Israel for the construction of Israel, and to build the illegal settlements in the West Bank, with Israel also exporting the stone internationally and claiming it as their own product. Today almost every hillside is scarred by the brutal incision of the quarries.
Walking through the landscape of the West Bank this mutilation becomes disconcertedly visible to the naked eye. The land is pillaged and defaced, its wound left open to reveal a 'geology of disaster'.
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| 3 Nov 2016 | 2:45pm - 4:00pm |
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