USA/Tunisia,
1992, 28 min
Shown in 1992
CREDITS
- dir
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Elia Suleiman
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COMMENTS
Shown with A Just War? Elia Suleiman in person.
Two very different films reflect on the Gulf War, its implications and its repercussions. First, Homage by Assassination, written, directed by and starring Palestinian filmmaker Elia Suleiman, takes place in his New York apartment during a long night and day of the war, as he awaits news of family and tries to come to terms with the images raging across his TV screen and through his mind. Beautifully photographed and edited, the film intercuts Suleiman wandering dazed around his apartment, TV images of news, Bible epics and spaghetti westerns and the superimposed text of his computer as he writes out random thoughts and Arabic proverbs (“The puppy turned out worse than the cur that bore it”). With subtlety, tenderness and humor, Suleiman explores the painful contradictions of his Middle Eastern identity.
—Tod Booth
FACTOID #343
Director Sally Potter was the first person to be honored with the Festival’s Satyajit Ray Award. In 1993 she was interviewed onstage and her new film Orlando was screened. In 2005, she turned the tables by interviewing Peter J. Owens Award recipient Joan Allen.
