Break the siege

The camera operator’s eye has followed the entire project’s development, often loosing itself in the wonderful sights of this wounded land. Even if, still, the true protagonists are them: the young artists, brave enough to defy every institution, even their own establishment’s, convinced and sure of their cause’s justice. Thanks to the documentary we can see how these young boys and girls have integrated their own culture with an universal language, too often confused with the so called Americanization. This doesn’t just make their message of resistance more accessible to the world’s youth, it also allows them to interface more easily with their occidental coevals. And it’s this moment of meeting, this finding one another and feeling close disregarding the kilometers and the different origins, that has made this event, and the documentary that is its direct testimony, precious and touching.

The project, which lasted really too little, demonstrates how hip hop can act as an incredible transnational culture, that allows to tear down various walls. Thanks to the tremendous work of the camera operator  Thomas Siemieniec (aka Tomson) and of director Giulia Giorgi (aka Chimp), the film manages to capture the participants’ impressions in real time, collecting important testimonies, not just concerning hip hop, but also the lives of the Palestinian members of this community.

This is also evident from the ten tracks of the record that has been realized by Italian and Palestinian rappers, as part of the project, which is also the documentary’s original score.

For the Italian participants has been an incredible moment of growth, not only for the direct contact with the Palestinian reality, but also for the creative exchange with the local artists and for the inputs that have been created for future collaborations.