Fresh Blood: A Consideration of Belonging

(1996)

Genres: Documentary

Year: 1996

Runtime: 55 мин

Country: Canada, Israel

Director: b.h. Yael

Cast: b.h. Yael, Ella Shohat, Eli Amir, Nabila Espanioly

Plot

Fresh Blood: A Consideration of Belonging is a hybrid documentary which includes questions around Arab Jewishness, negotiating Palestine, gender, belly dancing and memory. This video essay, formed by personal narrative and including a return to Israel/Palestine, engages issues of: Jewish racialized identity, Arab/Jewish dichotomies and the way these come together in Iraqi Jewish culture, and the personal implications of the politics of Palestine and the Jewish holocaust.