500 Dunam on the Moon

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500 Dunam on the Moon (2002)

Directed by Rachel Leah Jones

Documentary · 48m

Ayn Hawd is a Palestinian village that was captured and depopulated by Israeli forces in the 1948 war. In 1953 Marcel Janco, a Romanian painter and a founder of the Dada movement, helped transform the village into a Jewish artists' colony, and renamed it Ein Hod. This documentary tells the story of the village's original inhabitants, who, after expulsion, settled only 1.5 kilometers away in the outlying hills. This new Ayn Hawd cannot be found on official maps, as Israeli law doesn't recognize it, and its residents, deemed "present absentees" by the authorities, do not receive basic services such as water, electricity or an access road. Rachel Leah Jones' filmmaking debut is a critical look at the art of dispossession and the creativity of the dispossessed.

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Crew

Director
Rachel Leah Jones
Writer
Rachel Leah Jones

Details

Release date
2002-01-01
Runtime
48m
Genres
Documentary
Original language
EN
Spoken languages
Arabic, Hebrew