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all my haters become tomaters in my lovely summer garden

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The Kerch Crown, a gold and garnet diadem uncovered from a tomb in Kerch, Crimea, dates to the 4th-5th century AD

from The State Museum of Berlin

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Alphonse Maria Mucha’s manuscript

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step 1. take ibuprofen

step 2. jerk off

step 3. YOU ARE NOW ON A TIME LIMIT. YOUR BODY IS FULL OF BOTH ARTIFICIAL AND NATURAL PAINKILLERS. YOU HAVE APPROXIMATELY 15 MINUTES TO DO WHATEVER YOU WANT WHILE BEING PAIN-FREE. USE YOUR TIME WISELY. (i am having a bagel)

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ginkgo tiles

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tracey emin, 2013

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james sant's courage, anxiety and despair: watching the battle (1850)

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Anne Bradstreet's Before the Birth of One of Her Children, excerpt

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PALESTINE FILM INDEX

Palestine Film Index is a growing list of films from and about Palestine and the Palestinian struggle for liberation, made by Palestinians and those in solidarity with them. The index starts with films from the revolutionary period (68 - 82) made by the militant filmmakers of the Palestine Film Unit and their allies, and extends through a multitude of voices to the present day. It is by no means a complete or exhaustive representation of the vast universe that is Palestinian cinema, but is only a small fragmentary list that we hope nontheless can be used as an instrument of study & solidarity. As tools of knowledge against zionist propaganda and towards Palestinian liberation.

The century long war against Palestinians by the zionist project is one waged not only militarily but also culturally. The act of filmmaking, preservation, and distribution becomes an act against this attempted cultural erasure of ethnic cleansing. The power inherent in this form as a weapon against the genocidal project of zionism is evidenced in the ways it has been historically & currently targeted by the occupation forces: from the looting & stealing of the Palestine Cinema Institute archives during the siege of Beirut in 1982, through the long history of targeted assassinations of Palestinian filmmakers, journalists, artists, & writers (from PFU founder Hani Jawharieh, to Ghassan Kanafani, Shireen Abu Akleh, Refaat Alareer, and the over 100 journalists killed in the currently ongoing war on Gaza).

It is in this spirit of the use of film and culture as a way of focusing & transmitting information & knowledge that we hope this list can be used as one in an assortment of educational tools against hasbara (a coordinated and intricate system of zionist propaganda, media manipulation, & social engineering, etc) and all forms of propaganda that is weaponized against the Palestinian people. Zionist media & its collaborators remain one of the most effective fronts of the war, used to manufacture consent through deeply ingrained psychological manipulation of the general public agency. Critical and autonomous thought must be used as a tool of dismantling these frameworks. In this realm, film can play a vital roll in your toolkit/arsenal. Film must be understood as one front of the greater resistance. We hope in some small way we can help to distribute these manifestations of Palestinian life and the struggle towards liberation.

This list began as small aggregation to share among friends and comrades in 2021 and has since expanded to the current and growing form (it is added to almost every day). We have links for through which each film can be viewed along with descriptions, details such as run time, year, language, etc. We also have a supplemental list of related materials (texts, audio, supplemental video) that is small but growing. We have added information on contacts for distributors and filmmakers of each film in order to help people or groups who are interested in using this list to organize public screenings of these films. The makers of this list do not control the rights to these films and we strongly urge those interested in screening the works to get in touch with the filmmaker or distributors before doing so. This list was made with best intentions in mind, and in most cases with permission of filmmaker or through a publically available link, but if any film has mistakenly been added without the permission of a filmmaker involved and you would like us to remove it, or conversely if you are a filmmaker not included who would like your film to be added, or for any other thoughts, suggestions, additions, subtractions, complaints or concerns, please contact us at palestinefilmindex@gmail.com. No one involved in this list is doing it as a part of any organization, foundation or non-profit and we are not being paid to do this, it is merely a labor of love and solidarity. From the river to the sea, Palestine

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those pictures of guillermo with his long hair and beard and the one curl at his forehead bewitched me and i blacked out and this was in front of me

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Arnhem Land Rock Art Australia

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Ancient Egyptian cuffed bracelet with cats (gold, carnelian, lapis-lazuli, turquoise glass), c. 1479–1425 B.C. Found within the Tomb of the Three Foreign Wives of Thutmose III, Wadi Gabbanat el-Qurud, Thebes, Egypt. Met Museum. 26.8.121a

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I have a folder called Time is a Flat Circle in which I collect evidence of humanity. Here is most of them.

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The Orpheus mosaic in Woodchester, Britain. It was created ca. 325 AD and is the second largest Roman mosaic in the world. It depicts the Greek myth of Orpheus attracting wild animals with his lyre.

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"The Kiss", a 12,000-year-old rock painting at Pedra Furada in Brazil

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I recently discovered laundry stripping and y’all, no matter how much of a crock of shit you think fast fashion is, you’re underestimating.

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04/13/05