Memories for Forgetfulness Elsewhere | III. Images of Resistance from Elsewhere
One Dollar a Day
Jocelyne Saab
2016
6 Minutes
Courtesy of Jocelyne Saab’s Friends Association
Date
Repeat: Wednesday, February 16
Poetry is everywhere, even in the refugee camps where absolute misery reigns. In front of old plastic advertising posters on which are drawn in giant format the big icons of luxury and consumerism that make up their shelters, refugee children stand like kings. Symbols of life at the heart of war, fragility, and death, these children are shown by Jocelyne Saab as precious notes of hope in the heart of a dehumanized world. One Dollar a Day was filmed in the Syrian refugee camps of the Bekaa plain, Lebanon in 2015, with text by Etel Adnan.
Jocelyne Saab’s One Dollar a Day is presented within Images of Resistance from Elsewhere, the third of five chapters in Memories for Forgetfulness Elsewhere, an online film program curated by Irmgard Emmelhainz for e-flux Video & Film. The program streams in five thematic group screenings each two weeks long, and will be accompanied by two live discussions.
For more information, contact program@e-flux.com.