Walls, Censorship and the Illusion of Control: An Interview with Khaled Jarrar

Still from Jarrar's film Infiltrators (2012).

Samuel Tafreshi sat down with Palestinian filmmaker and multimedia artist Khaled Jarrar to discuss border technology, the theatrical nature of nation states, and his films Infiltrators (2012) and Notes on Displacement (2022).

Khaled Jarrar was born in Jenin, Occupied Palestine in 1976. A multidisciplinary artist, Jarrar explores modern power struggles and their sociocultural impact on ordinary citizens, through highly symbolic photographs, videos, film, and performative interventions. Infiltrators, Jarrar's first feature-length film, was a documentary about everyday Palestinians “illegally” crossing the apartheid wall to be with their families in Jerusalem. Notes on Displacement, his second feature length, about a Palestinian refugee’s flight from Syria to Germany, received a world premier at the IDFA Envision Competition in November 2022.

Originally broadcast on Radio Alhara.