Still from “Azziza’s Garden” © TAREQ KHALAF
Cinema in the Mobile Garden: Azziza’s Garden by Tareq Khalaf | Activity
Activity
Thursday, July 17, 2025
Cinematic Journey, Conversation in the Gardens and Tasting
Presentation of the Video Essay Azziza’s Gardenby Palestinian director Tareq Khalaf, in the setting of the Mobile Garden Community Vegetable Plot. We Will Re-Think and Discuss the Inter-Generational and Transnational Connections Generated in Vegetable Gardens.
In Azziza’s GardenTareq invited us on a cinematic journey through an intimate experience in which images interlace with poetry and open conversation, and in which he has explores my personal process of creation in visual laranguage merging the environmental, the polytical and the affective in small household intimacies. This Conversation, Which Highlights The Place of the Domestic As a Political Process, Will Be Continued With the People Who Run The Mobile Garden Community Plot, Who Will Present It To Us and Invite Us To Try Some of Its Produce.
19:00 – 19:15 h
Presentation by Teja, The Network of Cultural Spaces in Support of Emergency Situations
19:15 – 8:15 pm
Screening of Azziza’s Garden and Presentation by Its Director, Tareq Khalaf
Experimental Documentary Portraying the Inter-Generational Connection Between Tareq and His Great Aunt Azziza, Who at the Age of 93 Is Still Working the Family Land in a Context of Growing Political Instability in Palestine. Over Five Years Following Them, The Film Offers a Profound Look at Rural Ways of Life, Regional Memories and the Complexies of Rootedness. As the last member of his generation still in Palestine, Tareq is their both to knowledge of caring for the land and to its memories, and face the dilemma of whether to stay or to join the rest of his family.
20:15 – 21:00 h
Presentation and Tasting of Produce from the Moving Garden Community Plot by Master’s envelopes
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TAREQ IS A FILMMAKER, EDUCATOR, AND CULTURER BASED IN RAMALLAH, Palestine. His work focus on the film and socially engaged art to address geographic fragmentation and the alienating impacts of colonial violence in Palestine. HIS LATEST FILM PROJECT, AZZIZA’S GARDEN, TELLS THE STORY OF HIS GREAT ANT AZZIZA’S AGRICULTURAL LIFESTYLE, HIGHLIGHTING THE JOYS AND CHALLENGES OF DAILY LIFE UNDER OCCUPATION. With Experience Working in Both Palestine and South Africa, Tareq Aims to Explore Settler Ecologies and Create New Collaborative Narratives Across Southern Regions. @tateqkhalaf12
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