Glow of Memories

Synopsis

This film focuses on an old Palestinian man who is the subject of artist Ismail Shammout’s painting Memories and Fire. The film unravels his memories using archival photographs and Shammout’s own paintings to tell the story of Palestinian experience and resistance. By simply using a montage of visuals and sounds and avoiding narration, Shammout adopts a style that was used by early Soviet filmmakers who wished to communicate across language boundaries, creating a film that offered an non-verbal narrative of the Palestinian cause. The film was screened at a variety of festivals in the former Soviet Union and won a prize at the International Leipzig Documentary and Short Film Week for Cinema and Television in 1973. Recently restored and digitized.

Main Cast

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Ismail Shammout
Sound	Sound Effects	Abdulla Abu-Jubein
Camera	Assistant Camera	Kheir Kawash
	Director of Photography	Ismail Shammout
Editing	Editor	Ibrahim Bashir
Department	Role	Name

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