Kabul, Jenin, Tehran : Nervus Rerum September 18, 2010

'Kabul, Jenin, Tehran...' a program of recent video work addressing issues of political and documentary representation, often overlooked by mainstream media. 'Nervus Rerum,' Latin for 'the nerve of things,' is a film essay by the London-based Otolith Group on the Jenin refugee camp in the Palestinian Occupied Territories. Juxtaposing imagery of the West Bank camp, whose refugees are afforded no political rights or means of representation, with poetic and literary narration drawn from the writings of Genet and Pessoa, the film blurs the boundaries between fact and fiction, opacity and transparency, while critically addressing the representation of a population confined within a decades-long occupation.