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NAKBA
by MAX FRANCOS - Best Photography
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Nakba
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I'm very proud to have received the Photography award from your Festival.
Nakba: The memory of an invisible people comes alive through signs and fossilised remains in the walls of a refugee camp for palestinians, telling a story of conquerors and conquered.
After having written a few science fiction screenplays to approach this ancestral conflict filled with religious passions and political interests, I came to the conclusion that only an image without a narrated explanation could offer an aesthetic language appropriate to tell the sadness of an deracinated people.
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Max Francos
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As a painter, I use earth as a creative material, I've learned from it to feel the truth of it?s language, this experience helped me in the film to get rid of the words and so, to be able to translate into image what the walls and remains of the camp had to say.
Can beauty express suffering? Only the author's honesty can reconcile this paradox.
The symbolic freedom of experimental cinema prevails over the narration, by disintegrating time and space a new language of abstraction inherent to the image is created, this was my challenge.
Max Francos
Director
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Short Film Festivals
