‘An Unusual Summer’ Director Kamal Aljafari on Discovering the Lost Ghosts of Palestine (EXCLUSIVE)
Ed Meza @edmezavarBerlin-based Palestinian filmmaker Kamal Aljafari revisits familiar themes in “An Unusual Summer,” a personal work that captures the invisible lives of people in a Palestinian neighborhood in the Israeli city of Ramla.Composed of recordings from a surveillance camera installed by Aljafari’s late father at their family home in 2006 in the hope of catching a vandal who kept damaging his car, “An Unusual Summer” is a video diary populated by local residents, shoppers, pedestrians and school kids.“In many ways it wasn’t really my choice to make this film,” Aljafari tells Variety.