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Gaza Book of Longing film & video features
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The landscape of a botanical conservatory in GAZA BOOK OF LONGING drives the memory of dispossession as a woman yearns for the climate of her homeland. Her search and discovery of a solitary olive tree in the metropolis reveals a longing that cannot be bound by artificial constructions. The tree and the woman struggle within the space of captivity to reconcile the reciprocal relationship between support and display as they find themselves lost in a land of othersā far away from home.

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