Inass Yassin Studio: Palestinian artist
The Projectionist Room and The Documentation
Projection started as on ongoing research on Al-Waleed Cinema in 2008; one of 3 cinema houses in Ramallah & Al-Biereh that vanished. the work documented different phases of building destruction, by following its history in the collective memories of its historical audience; playing with its critical aspect of political & social transformation in our Palestinian context.
Projection deals with Al Waleed Cinema, an example of transforming vanishing public space within the Palestinian context. It witnesses transitional moments in a dramatic process of social & political conversion.
Projection started in 2008 to document the building of the cinema in 2 years of destruction process that gradually unfolded the social & political history in the city.
Abi Fawk Eshajarh (My Father In The Tree) (1969), an Arab film was announced by a poster campaign to be screened at Al-Waleed Cinema on the 12th of July 2010, at 8:00 pm in Ramallah & Al-Bireh.
Projection. Free Entrance, invited the public to attend a projection of Al-Waleed Cinema which was under demolition. , Posters of the Arabic film: ”Abi Fawk Esh-shajara” (1969) depicting the stars: Abd Haleem Hafez, Nadia Lutfi, and Merfat Amin, were spread around Ramallah and Al-Bireh, advertising the screening at Al-Waleed Cinema. The poster was the last poster that stayed in the cinema window from 1969 till 2010 when I visited the site.
The projection was documentation, research In cinema culture, site-specific installation that raises questions on the changing politics and social values. It exposed the demolition of 3 cinema houses in the city of Ramallah & Al Bireh.
To read the article: Projection: Three Cinemas in Ramallah & Al-Bireh by Inass Yassin visit:
https://www.palestine-studies.org/sites/default/files/jq-articles/42-Projection_10.pdf
Projection Free Entrance, Loudspeakers announcement in Ramallah and Al-Bireh, 2010.
A recorded advertisement was played through the loudspeakers which were fixed on a touring car.
The announcement called for:
Abi Fawk Eshajarah: "My Father on The Tree (1969), staring by Abd Haleem Hafez, Nadia Lutfi & Merfat Amin.For the first and the last Time since 40 years, at Al-Waleed Cinema.
On Monday the 12d July 2010 at 8:00 pm
and the biggest surprise : It is Free Entrance!
In collaboration with The Municipality of Ramallah; وين ع رام الله and The Ethnographic and Art Museum of Birzeit; Ramallah, The Fairest of Them All !