Jan 30, 2013
The Kite that Caught a Mountain, a short film by Alexander Gaisie-Walker and James Altham. Soundtrack by Philip Glass.
From Electronic Intifada:
The short is specific to Israel’s practice of quarrying on Palestinian land but can be viewed as a metaphor of its colonization practices as a whole.
In the short, a silhouetted father and son are pushed off of their land by armed soldiers who shoot down the boy’s kite. The family’s property is destroyed and their land quarried. However, the machine of occupation is met with resistance and the short ends with a hopeful vision for the future of Palestine.