Torn Living

Torn Living is a personal documentary exploring the themes of exile, identity, and community in the life of the filmmaker as well as other Palestinian women. The film traces tremendous adjustments and adaptations Palestinian American women have had to make in one lifetime on their journey from cities, villages, and refugee camps of the Middle East to the metropolitan industrial suburbs of the United States.

The style of Torn Living is not the traditional documentary style of the evening news. It is rather a poetic, evocative, and complex telling of a personal history, using songs, paintings, and news footage in order to convey the multi-layered complexity of living through multiple identities. Torn Living uses this powerful poetic style in order to tell of personal histories which traverse continents.

Writer, Producer-Director: Alia Arasoughly

Co-Producer, Co-Editor, Co-Camera: Robert Jones

running time: 24 Minutes, VHS

Contact:

Prof. Bob Jones

University of Central Florida

Film Department

Orlando, FL 32816

Email: dodgeuniversity@aol.com

(407) 823-3309

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