Elia Suleiman

Elia Suleiman

Elia Suleiman ( _ar. إيليا سليمان, born July 28, 1960 in Nazareth) is a Palestinian-Israeli film director and actor. He is best known for the 2002 film "Divine Intervention" ( _ar. Yad Ilahiyya), a modern tragic comedy on living under occupation in the Palestinian territories which won the Jury Prize at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival. Elia Suleiman's cinematic style is often compared to that of Jacques Tati and Buster Keaton, for its poetic interplay between "burlesque and sobriety". [cite web|title=Elia Suleiman|publisher=Cannes Film Festival|url=http://www.festival-cannes.fr/perso/index.php?langue=6002&personne=2000818]

Early work

Between 1982-1993, Suleiman lived in New York City, where he directed two short films: "Introduction to the End of an Argument" and "Homage by Assassination", that won numerous awards.

"Homage by Assassination" is a "diary film" that critiques the 1991 Gulf War via the juxtaposition of multilayered personal anecdotes and identity. The film offers a lucid portrait of what Ella Shohat and Robert Stain have accurately termed "cultural disembodiment," manifested in "multiple failures of communication," that reflect the contradictions of a "diasporic subject." [cite web|title=Notes from the Palestinian Diaspora: an interview with Elia Suleiman|author=Richard Porton|publisher=Cineaste|url=http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/summary_0199-3049182_ITM]

Pedagogical work

In 1994, Suleiman moved to Jerusalem and began teaching at Birzeit University in the West Bank. He was entrusted with the task of developing a Film and Media Department at the university with funding support from the European Commission. [cite web|title=Elia Suleiman|publisher=Cannes Film Festival|url=http://www.festival-cannes.fr/perso/index.php?langue=6002&personne=2000818] He has also guest lectured in universities around the world.

Feature films

In 1996, Suleiman directed "Chronicle of a Disappearance", his first feature film. It won the Best First Film Prize at the 1996 Venice Film Festival. [cite web|title=Elia Suleiman|publisher=Cannes Film Festival|url=http://www.festival-cannes.fr/perso/index.php?langue=6002&personne=2000818]

In 2002, Suleiman's second feature film, "Divine Intervention", subtitled, "A Chronicle of Love and Pain", won the Jury Prize at Cannes Film Festival and the International Critics Prize (FIPRESCI) , also receiving the Best Foreign Film Prize at the European Awards in Rome. [cite web|title=Cannes 2002: Special Report|author=Ron Holloway|publisher=Kinema|date=Fall 2002|url=http://www.kinema.uwaterloo.ca/hollo022.htm]

Other film work

In 2000, Suleiman released the 15-minute short film "Cyber Palestine" which follows a modern-day Mary and Joseph as they attempt to cross from Gaza into Bethlehem. [cite web|title=Cyber Palestine (2000): Movie Details|publisher=Yahoo! Movies|url=http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1809413760/details]

In his 1998 film, The Arab Dream ("Al Hilm Al-Arabi") Suleiman autobiographically explores issues of identity, expressing that: "I don't have a homeland to say I live in exile... I live in postmortem... daily life, daily death." [cite web|title=Passion Shared|author=Amina Elbendary|publisher=Al-Ahram Weekly|date=2 - 8 May 2002|url= http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2002/584/cu2.htm]

Suleiman was part of the nine person jury for the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.

Notes

Further reading

*cite web |url=http://stopsmilingonline.com/features_detail.html?id1=754 |title=Requesting Permission to Narrate: Dreams of a Nation: On Palestinian Cinema |accessdate=2007-04-09 |last=Provan |first=Alexander |authorlink= |coauthors= |date= |year=2007 |month=February |format= |work= |publisher=Stop Smiling Magazine |pages= |language= |archiveurl= |archivedate= |quote=

External links

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