Sunday, April 10th, at 8 pm, at Artword Artbar, 15 Colbourne Street, Hamilton, $10 or PWYC. A screening of the film “TERRITORIES” based on the documentary process of photographer Larry Towell, directed by Mary Ellen Davis (Canada 2007, 65 minutes) that captures renowned photographer Larry Towell’s exploration of borders and territories, in both Mexico and Palestine.
Followed by a discussion with Jimmy Johnson, focussing on “The Palestine-Mexico Border”, the space where two militarized borders meet — the militarized Mexico-U.S. border and Israel’s regimes of occupation and apartheid against Palestinians.
More about the film “Territories”:
The film follows Palestinians through a procession around the coffin of a child killed by Israeli bullets. Mexican Mennonite communities resist modernity and retain their culture of peace and spirituality, but drought and globalization force them into poverty and migration. In Towell’s Ontario home, Davis reveals the beauty of the photographer’s own universe.
These are territories in dispute, territories of the soul, of creation, territories as land, as refuge, territories forbidden. The documentary reveals the artist and the man through his photographic work and his meditations on life and the creative process.
More about Jimmy Johnson and his concept of “The Mexico-Palestine Border”:
The film will be followed by a discussion with Jimmy Johnson, founder of Neged Neshek and former International Coordinator of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions. Neged Neshek provides information and analysis about the Israeli arms industry.
The discussion will focus on “The Palestine-Mexico Border”, the space where two militarized borders meet — the militarized Mexico-U.S. border and Israel’s regimes of occupation and apartheid against Palestinians.
Johnson will discuss how these two repressive structures share technologies, training, and political language that support both Israel’s occupation as well as the NAFTA policies of neoliberalism and gross inequality between the U.S. and Mexico, as well as anti-Latino racism.
A brief presentation will be followed by a discussion period to explore the topic as well as the chance for organizers and activists to reshape the Palestine-Mexico Border into a space of justice by organizing across the perceived boundaries between causes.
