5 Broken Cameras
October 9th, 2012Via: Total Film:
In 2005 the people of the Palestinian village of Bil’in, in the Occupied Territories, learned that the Israeli government’s Separation Wall would run close to their village, depriving them of much of their cultivated land – land which would then be taken over by Jewish settlers.
They resolved to protest by every non-violent means possible – and one of them, Emad Burnat, decided to document the protests with his newly acquired camera.
Over the next five years Burnat doggedly carries out his plan – despite being beaten up, wounded, jailed and having one camera after another smashed by soldiers. “I film,” he tells us, “to hold on to my life.”
Research Credit: almaverdad2
