Films of Palestinian Resistance continues with a documentary on the world's foremost scholar of Postconialism, Edward Said (1935-2003).

OUT OF PLACE: MEMORIES OF EDWARD SAID
dir. Makoto Satō, 2006
Japan. 138 min.
In English.

“I saw that people make their own history. That history is not like nature. It’s a human product. And I saw that we can make our own beginnings. That they are not given, they are acts of will.”
-Edward Said

This documentary traces Said’s childhood influences and celebrates his intellectual legacy, imaginatively blending his writings, home movies, and interviews with friends, family, and colleagues (among them Ilan Pappe, Elias Khoury, Azmi Bishara, Daniel Barenboim, Rashid Khalidi, Michel Warschawski, Noam Chomsky and Dan Rabinowitz).

Visiting the sites of his birthplace in Jerusalem, his boyhood homes in Lebanon and Cairo, and his New York City apartment, the film emphasizes Said's sense of always feeling "out of place"—personally, geographically and linguistically—a theme he developed in his memoir, explaining how everyone, in a sense, is comprised of "multiple identities."

The themes of reconciliation and coexistence that Said fought for throughout his life are further illuminated by a visit with a Palestinian family in a refugee camp in Syria and a family of Mizrahim (Arabic Jews) in Israel, a memorial conference held at Bir Zeit University on the West Bank, and scenes at other sites in Israel and the West Bank. 

OUT OF PLACE is thus both a fascinating biographical film on one of the most acclaimed cultural critics of the postwar world as well as an engaging examination of many of the cultural and political issues to which he devoted his life.
-Icarus Films

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