Palestine in fragments
Dominique Dubosc
2007 docu
88 min.
Dominique Dubosc’s documentary film is a unique and unforgettable meditation which
disrupts any separation between art and documentary filmmaking from the first frame and
continues to surprise throughout. Using images (stills, video, landscapes, interviews,
architectures) shot between 2001 and 2007, the director assembles a series of chapters which
move between impressionistic studies of unusual spaces and structures observed in the
occupied Palestinian territories, to informal interviews in which the narratives of Palestinians
in the West Bank are presented unadorned. In one chapter, urban and landscape imagery is
seen in stark black and white photographs, highlighting destruction and constructed
obstruction as indelible markers of the West Bank occupation’s visual language. In another,
an unusual game of basketball carries in it both a routinised surrealism and a horrifying
truth… Palestine in Fragments promises to intrigue and amuse as without shying away from
the often brutral realities it records.