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500 Dunam
on the Moon
Ayn Hawd
is a Palestinian village that was captured
and depopulated by Israeli forces in the
1948 war. In 1953 Marcel Janco, a Romanian
painter and a founder of the Dada movement,
helped transform the village into a Jewish
artists' colony, and renamed it Ein Hod.
This documentary tells the story of the
village's original inhabitants, who, after
expulsion, settled only 1.5 kilometers away
in the outlying hills.
This new
Ayn Hawd cannot be found on official maps,
as Israeli law doesn't recognize it, and
its residents, deemed "present absentees"
by the authorities, do not receive basic
services such as water, electricity or an
access road. Rachel Leah Jones' filmmaking
debut is a critical look at the art of dispossession
and the creativity of the dispossessed.
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See these books about refugees:
Palestinian
Refugees: The Right of Return (ed.
Naseer Aruri)
Refugees
in Our Own Land (Muna Hamzeh)
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