Dag’aa

Palestinian filmmaker Shadi Habib Allah embarks on an unlikely journey across the heavily militarized Sinai Peninsula in Egypt, a journey led by a network of Bedouin smugglers who intuitively navigate an unmapped terrain. The only signposts are the stories they share about the stakes of living, dying, and moving through this precarious liminal space. Anecdotes transition into directions and allegiances are blurred, as is the state of the Bedouins, who remain unrecognized citizens of this no man’s land.
Habib Allah is led behind the lines of military checkpoints, off the political, economic, and historical grid, through a space where these Bedouins quietly maintain their traditions with the help of snakes.

Shadi Habib Allah’s Dag’aa is presented within Today, the last 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 on February 2 and 15.

For more information, contact program@e-flux.com.