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The Violence in Ordinary Things
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The Violence in Ordinary Things

How dispossession becomes family property

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🎧 An eleven-minute film about a mirror stolen in 1948 becomes a meditation on how dispossession settles into everyday life. Set around a family table, Mirror Image, by Danielle Schwartz, traces the afterlife of the Nakba not through archives or declarations, but through language, hesitation, and what cannot quite be said. A refusal to name Palestinians, a story that never fully coheres, an object that will not become innocent with time. The film watches how theft is softened into inheritance, how violence becomes furniture, and how silence does much of the work ideology requires. Nothing is resolved. The mirror remains, reflecting an ordinary world built on an unaddressed crime.

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