Gaza Strip [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

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'Daily life' in contempoary Palestine.......2006-04-13

In 2001, the filmmaker James Longley visited the Palestine cities Gaza, Khan Yunis and Rafah in the Gaza Strip. 75 hours of material were filmed in the Gaza Strip over a period of 100 days to complete the production. The crew was fired on by the Israeli military in two separate incidents while filming.

James Longley: At the southwest corner of Israel lies a sliver of sandy earth, bordering Egypt on the south and bound by the Mediterranean Sea to the west.
The Gaza strip is only 28 miles long and 4 miles wide, but it contains over 1.2 million Palestinians, a third of them living in crowded refugee camps.
Most Palestinians in the Gaza Strip fled or were purged in 1948 from homes inside modern-day Israel, or are the descendants of these refugees. The United Nations estimates that the population of the Gaza Strip will double within the next 15 years.
Approximately 6,000 Israeli settlers also live in the Gaza Strip within heavily fortified colonies inside security buffer zones with special access roads that, combined, claim more than 30 percent of the available land.
Along with the West Bank, the Gaza Strip has been under Israeli military occupation since 1967. The State of Israel controls all borders, main roads, the sea port, the airport, the mail, the electricity and the water supply.
After years of unproductive peace negociations, the second Palestinian Intifada, or uprising, broke out in September 2000.
This film documents the lives of ordinary Palestinians living inside the Gaza Strip during this time of crisis."

This documentary is worth watching!

Audio: Arab with English subtitles.

I also recommend the documentary DVD 'Wall' showing how the Israeli started to build a high borderline wall between Israel and Palestine in 2003. In addition, I recommend the documentary DVD 'Checkpoint' dealing with the Israeli checkpoints on the Palestinian territory.

Heartbreaking.......2004-03-18

Sometimes documentaries hurt too much to be watchable, and “Gaza Strip” is an example. This is the story of the children living the occupied areas who relate their daily existence through sensitive interviews and showing the viewer aspects of their lives. Unsurprisingly they ruminate on death; at the age of thirteen they talk about how they’re not afraid of dying, how they want to by martyrs to the cause. But behind their tough words, in their eyes all you can see is fear. In one moment, a child sits in a barely furnished room and describes the conversation he will have with God when he dies. Even here he finds little comfort as everything he has done in his life to survive physically and spiritually is not enough in the maker’s eyes. He can see no hope for himself. In the closing moments their homes are bulldozed, but tents are soon up in the rubble, in defiance and necessity.

It isn’t an easy film. There is a larger narrative at play, but mainly we see images and ideas. But it is difficult to follow in places; although a message appears at the start it doesn’t add enough context to what we are seeing. It’s similar in many ways to Marc Singer’s “Dark Days” about the people living under New York. But in that film a disembodied voice explained what we were seeing, placed it in context and made the ‘story’ more affecting. Here, as tragic moments pass, a viewer with only a smattering of priory knowledge of the situation would find it difficult to understand why things are happening, how the people are in this terrible situation. Cleverly then, the film demands that the watcher learns more of their own accord, perhaps with a view to revisiting the film with this new found context. Until then we sit in utter amazement that the film was made at all.

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Gaza Strip [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
James Longley
Manufacturer: Arab Film Distribution
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ASIN: 6307803223
Release Date: 2003-05-06

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Walk Aerobics With Leslie Sansone: Deluxe Fat Burning Walk
Leslie Sansone
Manufacturer: Peter Pan
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Disappointing.......2004-07-14

After liking her 2 mile walk so much, this 4 mile walk is just a big disappointment for me.
It looks like it was filmed during the 80's - which wouldn't be bad in itself - but it looks very unprofessional.
Leslie makes little mistakes, goofs when walking, chats costantly with her instructors about insider stuff, and generally just doesn't seem to concentrate on what she's doing.
The background is mainly white, and they all wear black leggins, and it's hard to see their leg movements, too.

The best part of the workout is the last segment - toning and stretching.

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