Jehad in Motion

Jehad Aliweiwi is a Palestinian Canadian who lives in Toronto but regularly returns to visit his family in Hebron Rendered on two screens Jehad in Motion is a double portrait both of the man and of the two cities he calls home In Hebron Jehad takes us to the old market where Jewish settlers have colonized the upper stories forcing Palestinians to build a horizontal fence to protect themselves In Toronto we walk around Thorncliffe Park where he works providing services in one of the citys key neighbourhoods for newly arrived immigrants In Hebron he celebrates his sisters wedding at a feast for one thousand people In Toronto he cooks at a Passover Seder for peace Jehad synthesizes the challenges and possibilities in these two very different but overlapping worlds Jehad in Motion ruminates on diaspora urban space and the interpenetration of politics and cultures It is also an intervention into the practices of documentary media portraiture and installation art