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KILL ME INSTEAD!

Fadia, 19, traces cracks in the walls of her rented apartment as she describes the death of her father. After returning home from his job as a construction laborer, shortly before the dawn prayer, he collapsed right away onto his bed, dusting the sheets with the debris that fell from his work clothes. Not long after, the shabiha (pro-regime militia) burst into their home and shot him, execution style, in the head. He had barely woken up. When Fadia’s little brother wailed in fear, the guns were turned on him. Fadia screamed, “Kill me instead!” Both were spared. She now lives with her aunt on the outskirts of Amman in a crowded one-bedroom apartment with fifteen extended family members. They survive by digging through trash containers and finding remnants of bread to dry and sell to herders. This earns them a couple of dollars a day.

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The Un/Holy Land is an interactive documentary, taking viewers on a deep and multi-layered dive into the sacred and profane landscapes of Israel-Palestine. Our web-doc is a multi-sensory digital platform that re-engages myth and dogma, moving the viewer through rigid and contested boundaries customarily drawn around faith, secularity, religion, and politics. We engage and challenge viewers in playful new way, giving them a uniquely complex and dynamic path for learning and unlearning the lay of the Un/Holy Land.

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