The Roof
( Alsateh )
Kamal Aljafari
2006 - Palestine - Couleur - 63'
Photography : Diego Martinez Vignatti
Sound : Antoine Brochu, Gilles Laurent
Editing : Kamal Aljafari
Production : Kamal Aljafari
Kamal Aljafari
2006 - Palestine - Couleur - 63'
“This deceptively quiet film presents a portrait of Aljafari’s family in Ramleh and Jaffa that hovers between documentary and cinematic memoir, guided by a nimble camera moving calmly but ceaselessly around the rooms of homes inhabited, damaged and ruined. The title refers to the roof missing from the house where Aljafari’s family resettled in 1948, a home unfinished, an incomplete construction project. The use of stillness and off-screen space creates a sense of suspension, of time spent waiting, of aftermath, of lives lived elsewhere.” (Harvard Film Archive)
Photography : Diego Martinez Vignatti
Sound : Antoine Brochu, Gilles Laurent
Editing : Kamal Aljafari
Production : Kamal Aljafari