LONDON PALESTINE FILM FESTIVAL
NOVEMBER 13-26, 2020

BARBICAN CINEMA ON DEMAND | LPFF Vimeo On Demand

Artist / Investigation Double Bill: bringing together two illuminating videos looking into the sale and effect of tear gas in Palestine and globally

Letter to a Friend 
Emily Jacir | 2019 | 43’ 

Triple Chaser
Laura Poitras & Forensic Architecture | 2019 | 11’ 

13 - 26 November
Barbican Cinema on Demand

In Letter to a Friend, artist Emily Jacir writes a letter to her friend, Eyal, after a military situation on her street leaves it strewn with empty canisters of the Triple Chaser, a particularly destructive type of teargas. Her letter is an intimate and intricate recounting of her street, its history and her family’s past. Interlacing images, textures, and sounds from over a century, Jacir unravels layers of this ancient city, and the constant threat it lives under.

Triple Chaser, meanwhile, is an investigative video exposing Warren B. Kanders, the Whitney Museum’s vice chair of the board’s, links to Safariland, the company producing the lethal tear gas, Triple Chaser. Academy Award winner, Laura Poitras (Citizenfour) and multi-disciplinary research group, Forensic Architecture, teamed up to make Triple Chaser, a short documentary using novel machine-learning techniques. In it they document the distribution of tear gas and bullets made by companies that belonged to Warren Kanders, Whitney Museum vice chairman. Triple Chaser demonstrates how they have been used against civilians to suppress anti-authoritarian movements. Forensic Architecture’s incredible combination of data-visualization and documentary filmmaking have made them a potent force for holding war criminals and authoritarians to account.

Please note: this film contains some strobe effects that may be unsuitable for viewers with light sensitivity.

This includes a pre-recorded Q&A with Emily Jacir (Filmmaker), Eyal Weizmann (Founding Director, Forensic Architecture) and Michael Rakowitz (Artist).