Rotations presents *Notes on Displacement* by Khaled Jarrar, and *Moonscape* by Mona Benyamin. A Q&A with Khaled Jarrar and Crystal Murphy follows the films.

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*Notes on Displacement.* Khaled Jarrar. Palestine, Germany, Qatar, 2022. 74 min.

*Notes on Displacement* follows a single Palestinian family on a grueling journey: destination Germany. Nadira has been a refugee since the age of 12. Now she has to evacuate Damascus, too. She and her daughter Mona feared for their lives there, but the idea of a safe existence elsewhere is a distant dream. Filmmaker Khaled Jarrar receives unsettling videos and voice messages as they cross to the Greek island of Lesbos. He joins them there, on the long road to a new life. Jarrar has personal reasons for going through this experience—can he shore up, through his own images, the distance so dominant in Western media coverage? Jarrar gets lost in the night with his group, discovers how dangerous language barriers can be, and wanders the dehumanizing camps. And in a sense he—alongside the viewer—becomes a true member of this family.

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*Moonscape*. Mona Benyamin. Palestine, 2020. 17 min. In Arabic with English subtitles.

*Moonscape* takes the form of a music video for a middle-of-the-road ballad, a duet in Arabic. The song traces the story of Dennis M. Hope, who claimed ownership of the moon and founded the Lunar Embassy, a company that sells land on celestial bodies. We find a connection between his story and that of the director—a young Palestinian woman living under the Israeli occupation, longing to end the misery of her people.

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Q&A moderated by Crystal Murphy, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Chapman University. Dr. Murphy is affiliated with the Peace Studies Department, is Director of the MA in International Studies program, and co-Director of the Chapman Olive Tree Initiative chapter. Her research focuses on conflict, humanitarianism and development, and advocates qualitative methods for policy oriented scholarship.

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Rotations: Films by Khaled Jarrar + Mona Benyamin

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