Lyd / a film by Rami Younis and Sarah Ema Friedland.

[Palestine?]: Icarus Films, [2023]

Arabic

Arabic, Hebrew, with English subtitles.

1 videodisc (79 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

DVD 956.054 L983 2023

(OCoLC)1429915594

This documentary that follows the rise and fall of Lyd (alternatively Lod, as it is now called), a 5,000-year-old metropolis that was a bustling Palestinian town, until it was taken over by the state of Israel. As the film unfolds, residents create a tapestry of the Palestinian experience of this city and exemplify the trauma left by the 1948 massacre and expulsion. Vivid animations envision an alternate reality where the same people live free from the trauma of the past and the violence of the present. Using never-before-seen archival footage of Israeli soldiers who carried out the massacre and expulsion, the personified city explains that these events were so devastating that they fractured reality, and now there are two Lyds - one occupied and one free. As the film cuts between fantastical and documentary realities, it ultimately leaves the viewer questioning which future should prevail. Lyd dares to ask the questions: what would the city be like had the Israeli occupation of Lyd never happened?--Back cover.

Wide screen.
"A story of a city that once connected Palestine to the world - what it once was, what it is now, and what it could have become"-Front cover.

DVD, wide screen.

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