Feb 10, 2019Laura Horelli, Kamal Aljafari
The director of Uutisten aika and the director of It’s a Long Way from Amphioxus during Q&A.
Forum Expanded – It’s a Long Way from Amphioxus
Feb 11, 2019Kamal Aljafari
The director during Q&A.
Forum Expanded – It’s a Long Way from Amphioxus
An old woman leans to the young man with the yellow book sitting next to her and asks, “What are they distributing here?” “Numbers”, he replies. In Berlin’s waiting rooms, where metal and wooden seats are nailed to the ground, people arrive after emerging from the seas. Here they wait.
Kamal Aljafari’s new short film once again collapses time, questioning the meaning of life in a system in which humanity is reduced to a number and the value of one’s future is measured by applications within grey hallways. Step into this black hole, where bones and flesh have become numbers in a queuing system. With surreal humor, this film observes the origins of our being versus the future of how we are defined. What have we become from our point of origin until today’s chaos of bureaucratic mazes? It’s a long way from Amphioxus, we all came from there.
by
Kamal Aljafari
Germany 2019
German
Documentary form17’ · Colour
World premiere
Faysal Bibi
Kamal Aljafari, born in Palestine in 1972, lives in Berlin. He works with moving and still images, interweaving between fiction, non-fiction, and art. Kamal’s past films include Recollection (2015), Port of Memory (2009), and The Roof (2006). He was a featured artist at the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar (NYC) and was a Fellow at Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute and Film Study Center.
Filmography2003 Visit Iraq 2006 The Roof; 58 min. 2007 Balconies; 11 min. 2009 Port of Memory; 58 min. 2015 Recollection; 70 min. 2019 It’s a Long Way from Amphioxus
Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2019
Kamal Aljafari Studio