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.
Editing
Olsson weaves 30 years into haunting continuity.
Production
SVT's vault: a national memory nobody asked for.
Director
Göran Olsson
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Olsson previously excavated Swedish TV archives for 'The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975'—same method, different continent.
Sweden's early recognition of Palestine (1974) made SVT's coverage politically fraught; this film exposes what state broadcasters buried and what they couldn't.
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Saw this during my Tokyo Japan trip during October 2024. Great work to the team on this. Powerful film.
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