“It's important for me to not historicize. I work to diffuse the issue of identity and to intensify identification. You have to lose your authority in the making of a film to achieve this. The film is about me being absolutely dislocated. I focus on the very personal to arrive at the very political.” ImportantFilmPoliticalLosesIssuesFocusAchieveIdentityAuthorityIdentification Author:Elia Suleiman
“Someone like myself is not from one place. I am in total identification with the New York, French, and Palestine experience and do not stop at the borders of identity.” New YorkIdentityBordersPalestineIdentification Author:Elia Suleiman
“It's a false illusion that we wake up thinking of who we are in terms of identity and that we are stuck in the boundaries of who we are nationalistically.” ThinkingTermIdentityIllusionWake UpStuckBoundariesWho We Are Author:Elia Suleiman
