Thank you guys for sharing this meaningful story. I am proud of your animation letter as you dare to make a statement and increase the breadth of the letter. Your letter is at a new level. I was about to consider quit your letter as I felt you said it all in the animation world, but this last one piece opens a new route. I will commit to one more year with you guys. Merci
I’m just proud of you guys, as an arab as a muslem as a human, what happeing now in Gaza is a crime, its happining everyday since more then 70 yrs, and still something passive and no real step has been taken to stop anything of that, we are so ashamed of that injustice world we live in. And being able to express some of that in a short simple film is just heartbreaking though all of that and even more is happining everday in Gaza and in the west bank while west goverments send weapons for Isreal and fool people that Gaza is the badguy of the story!
Thank you for writing this. I can only imagine how difficult it must have been to create animation under the level of overbearing control endured by Palestinians in the West Bank (and even more so in Gaza).
Palestinians are often reduced to a uniform picture of suffering, a statistic of children killed, so I appreciate that you took the time to spotlight art created in Palestine.
It makes me think about how genocide collapses all possibilities and narratives. Perhaps it is strange to say in the face of all this horror, but I would love to be able to chat about goofy anime nonsense with friends in Palestine. There is an anecdote about Sylvia Riviera that says she was into pokémon, that her favourite pokémon was pikachu. This has nothing to do with the usual stories told about her and trans activism, STAR etc., and that's why it's disarming, a story about her as a person rather than a martyr.
It is impossible to comprehend what kind of lives the 10,000 people already confirmed killed in the last few weeks would have done in less cruel circumstances. It's grotesque that because of an accident of where we're each born, I can spend my life creating animation and art and writing and games in warmth and comfort, and someone in Gaza must count down the hours until their appointment with a missile. It's so bleak. Even if a ceasefire is declared, nothing will bring the dead back, or undo the trauma inflicted on the survivors. And it makes me so indescribably sick to know that my country created this situation in the last century and continues to make it worse in this one.
We have to hold on to the thought, to fight to bring about, that one day there will be infinitely more Palestinian animation to enjoy, from a people no longer under the heel of an apartheid ethnostate backed by the largest military/economic superpower in the world. That one day the warplanes will be silent, so people like Marwan Makhoul can hear the birds again. And I'm glad you're able to use this column to connect us animation nerds to Palestinian art that most of us would be very unlikely to see otherwise.
Thank you for introducing me (and your readers) to this film and sharing more context and info from the filmmakers. I'm so looking forward to watching it.
Thank you guys for sharing this meaningful story. I am proud of your animation letter as you dare to make a statement and increase the breadth of the letter. Your letter is at a new level. I was about to consider quit your letter as I felt you said it all in the animation world, but this last one piece opens a new route. I will commit to one more year with you guys. Merci
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This is wonderful and insightful. World roundup really gives me such a lot to digest, read and watch. Thanks again for another great piece.
I’m just proud of you guys, as an arab as a muslem as a human, what happeing now in Gaza is a crime, its happining everyday since more then 70 yrs, and still something passive and no real step has been taken to stop anything of that, we are so ashamed of that injustice world we live in. And being able to express some of that in a short simple film is just heartbreaking though all of that and even more is happining everday in Gaza and in the west bank while west goverments send weapons for Isreal and fool people that Gaza is the badguy of the story!
Thank you for writing this. I can only imagine how difficult it must have been to create animation under the level of overbearing control endured by Palestinians in the West Bank (and even more so in Gaza).
Palestinians are often reduced to a uniform picture of suffering, a statistic of children killed, so I appreciate that you took the time to spotlight art created in Palestine.
It makes me think about how genocide collapses all possibilities and narratives. Perhaps it is strange to say in the face of all this horror, but I would love to be able to chat about goofy anime nonsense with friends in Palestine. There is an anecdote about Sylvia Riviera that says she was into pokémon, that her favourite pokémon was pikachu. This has nothing to do with the usual stories told about her and trans activism, STAR etc., and that's why it's disarming, a story about her as a person rather than a martyr.
It is impossible to comprehend what kind of lives the 10,000 people already confirmed killed in the last few weeks would have done in less cruel circumstances. It's grotesque that because of an accident of where we're each born, I can spend my life creating animation and art and writing and games in warmth and comfort, and someone in Gaza must count down the hours until their appointment with a missile. It's so bleak. Even if a ceasefire is declared, nothing will bring the dead back, or undo the trauma inflicted on the survivors. And it makes me so indescribably sick to know that my country created this situation in the last century and continues to make it worse in this one.
We have to hold on to the thought, to fight to bring about, that one day there will be infinitely more Palestinian animation to enjoy, from a people no longer under the heel of an apartheid ethnostate backed by the largest military/economic superpower in the world. That one day the warplanes will be silent, so people like Marwan Makhoul can hear the birds again. And I'm glad you're able to use this column to connect us animation nerds to Palestinian art that most of us would be very unlikely to see otherwise.
Thank you for your insightful and thoughtful work bringing overlooked animation to the forefront with the utmost reverence for the subject matter.
The Hubley quote (via Fatenah obvs) and the Fish film are highlights for me. Thankyou.
Thank you for introducing me (and your readers) to this film and sharing more context and info from the filmmakers. I'm so looking forward to watching it.