Israël Palestine on Swedish TV (1958-1989)
During the years 1958 to 1989, the Swedish public broadcaster SVT’s reporting from Israel and Palestine was unique. Their reporters were constantly present in the war-affected region, documenting everything from everyday life to international crises.
The film will be followed by a discussion on archives and the representation of the Israeli-Palestinian war, led by Alice Leroy (visual studies researcher, critic at Cahiers du cinéma)
with Göran Hugo Olsson,
Dominique Vidal, freelance journalist and co-author of Palestiniens-Israël. Une histoire visuelle (Seuil),
Mohanad Yaqubi, film-maker and producer.
Göran Hugo Olsson
Born 1965 in Lund, he has studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm after film studies at Stockholm University. He is a Documentary filmmaker, cinematographer and inventor of the A-cam, the world smallest Super-16 film camera, and D2 the only uncompressed digital camera. He’s also editor and founder of the short documentary TV program Ikon (SVT). Prior to that on SVT:s Elbyl-series. Co-founder of Story AB. Member of the Editorial board of Ikon South Africa – a platform for the creative documentary in South Africa. for the SABC. Film Commissioner at the Swedish Film Institute 1999-02, he has travelled the world making films, commercials, information films and music videos.
RESERVOIR DOCS
Story, SVT / Sverige Television, Film i Väst, Tekele Productions, Ström Pictures
Britta Norell
Gary Nilsson
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