Alfred Roch, member of the Palestinian National League, is a politician with a bohemian panache. In 1942, at the height of WWII, he throws what will turn out to be the last masquerade in Palestine. Inspired by an archival photograph, A Sketch of Manners (Alfred Roch’s Last Masquerade) recreates an unconventional bon vivant aspect of Palestinian urban life before 1948. Posing silently for a group photo, the unmasked and melancholic pierrots accidentally personify the premonition of an uncertain future.
Directing | Jumana Manna | Director |
Production | Jumana Manna | Producer |
Editing | Jumana Manna | Editor |
Directing | Ihab Jadallah | Assistant Director |
Sound | Jakob Langvik | Sound Designer |
Sound | Jochen Jezussek | Sound Designer |
Writing | Norman M. Klein | Writer |
Writing | Jumana Manna | Writer |
Camera | Daniel Kedem | Director of Photography |
Camera | Jumana Manna | Director of Photography |