Dorit Naaman is a film theorist and documentarist from Jerusalem, teaching at Queen’s University, Canada. Her research focuses on Middle Eastern cinemas (primarily from post-colonialist and feminist perspectives), and she is currently working on a book on the visual representation of Palestinian and Israeli women fighters. Her documentary work is about identity politics, and politics of representation and she developed a format of short videos, DiaDocuMEntaRY. Dorit Naaman is also an activist for a just solution to the Palestinian Israeli conflict.

Abstract

DiaDocuMEntaRY

DiaDocuMEntaRy is a series of short digital videos that hover between documentary and diary, exploring issues such as nationalism, immigration, historical narratives and personal journeys, from a particular geographical and temporal point. The following text is a combination of essay and three of the videos, exploring my process of developing the series and working through technical, aesthetic, conceptual and political issues.