Films by Attila Faravelli

Germany 2022, 19 min
by Kamal Aljafari

"Without commentary, the clips from Israeli military propaganda films form a colorful kaleidoscope that the filmmaker composes into a precisely choreographed ballet with elegiac, melodic music. Through the carefully selected shots - the image often pulled in or cropped - the original intention of the material recedes into the background, taking on a new meaning instead. Kamal Aljafari has not only given his experimental film the sonorous, half-poetic, half-scientific sounding title "Paradiso XXI