A Magical Substance Flows into Me (2015)

A Magical Substance Flows into Me plot

An ode to music that negates the distinction between 'Arabs' and 'Jews', state boundaries and political differences. Jumana Manna travels through Israel and Palestine with recordings by the German-Jewish ethnomusicologist Robert Lachmann, who presented the radio program Oriental Music for the Palestine Broadcasting Service in the 1930s. If we follow in his footsteps, what will those songs sound like when performed by Moroccan, Kurdish or Yemeni Jews, or by Samaritans, people from Palestinian towns and villages, Bedouins and Coptic Christians? The reconstruction of a multifaceted musical history of historic Palestine and Manna's own place in this whole takes place in living rooms, kitchens, on verandas and in workshops while cooking and brewing coffee. The conflict is looming in the background, but Manna smoothly breaks through linguistic, political, historical and territorial divides.

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