Talaeen a Junuub (Up to the South) طالعين على الجنوب

Jayce Salloum & Walid Raad | 1993 | total Running time: 61m | book tickets

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post-screening conversation with the director

Talaeen a Junuub (Up to the South) is ostensibly (not) a documentary on the south of Lebanon exploring the conditions of the time it was shot, the issues behind those conditions and their representation both in the West and in Lebanon itself. Within this, the directors tried to tackle two concerns. One being the terms (and positions) inherent in the discourse surrounding the issues, i.e. terrorism, colonialism, occupation, resistance, collaboration, experts, spokespeople, leadership, the land, etc., and the other being the history and structure of the documentary genre specifically in regards to the representation of other cultures by the West in documentary, ethnography and anthropological practise and the problems/agenda involved from the perspective of the subjects viewed and the practitioners practising. Up to the South challenges traditional documentary formats by positing representation itself as a politicized practice. 

Genre: documentary
Original Language: arabic (English subtitles)
Age rating: 16+
Content notes: footage and depictions of armed resistance

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