Archival film maestro Göran Hugo Olsson has assembled—from a vast catalogue of footage in the vaults of Sweden’s national television service SVT—accounts of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as witnessed and represented by Swedish journalists. Stories of the beginning of the Israeli state interwoven with the Palestinian struggle for independence. News coverage with Yasser Arafat and interviews with Israeli foreign minister Abba Eban during a visit to Sweden unseen since first broadcast. From the tenth anniversary of Israel’s founding to the First Intifada, perspectives and encounters with statesmen, civilians, revolutionaries, and intellectuals tell the story from myriad angles of an evolving media landscape, revivifying a history of the ongoing conflict.
Göran Olsson
Director, Writer
Yasser Arafat
Self (archive footage)
David Ben-Gurion
Self (archive footage)
Abba Eban
Self (archive footage)
Per-Åke Holmquist
Self (archive footage)
That's Entertainment! III70%
Becoming Led Zeppelin74%
The Atomic Cafe73%
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound69%
Five Broken Cameras75%
WHAM!73%
Apollo 13: Survival71%
Audrey71%
Världens vackraste pojke73%
Shipwrecked: Nightmare at Sea74%
The Greatest Night in Pop78%
Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story75%
Katy Perry: Part of Me71%
Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition86%
Stan Lee71%
9/11: Inside the President's War Room68%
Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present73%
The Age of Stupid65%
9/1178%
Everything or Nothing72%
