Letter To My Tribe premieres at the Toronto Palestine Film Festival

Sept 28, 12pm at TIFF Lightbox. 

Letter to my Tribe started with a question: Why don’t more Jews and Israelis speak out about Palestine?

Over many years my mother and I have had numerous arguments, some recorded, some not. These form the backbone of this video essay in which Israelis and Jews, journalists, activists and a rabbi are interviewed, and in which documentation of actions on the ground are woven with more personal family histories and journeys to Iraq and to Poland.

B. H. YAEL: FAMILY STATES, Mike Hoolboom (Ed.), 2021

This 140-page book brings together a collection of writings about the essential work of Canadian media artist b.h. Yael addressing issues of power and belonging, Palestine and remembering, gender roles and activism. The ideas and locations featured in Yael's films and videos reverberate through these responsive texts by fellow artists, filmmakers, writers, teachers, and activists, providing new and startling perspectives. The book also includes an interview conducted by editor Mike Hoolboom and pictures galore.

More about the book, the speakers, the films, the artists and writers' bios

Published by ConverSalon. Funded by the Ontario Arts Council.

We acknowledge that we have only been able to live and to flourish because we are on Native land, on the land of First Nations, a land distressed and disrespected, as has been the hospitality these Nations extended. May we who live on the land reciprocate their historic good will, the riches and wealth, and promote the political will to go forward with respect and with honour and with care.

Climate justice, responses to racism and poverty, disasters or calamities, are all bound up together. 

One reflects on the Other.

These difficult times call for responses grounded in social justice, discernment, and systemic and political expediency to cultivate our big big garden.