10:00:00:00 – Film starts
10:00:01:00 – 10:00:21:00:
Five lines of text appear consequentially, typewriter style, in Rockwell bold font:
DAM are three Israeli-born Palestinian rappers.
Their single, Min Erhabe (“Who’s The Terrorist?”)
has had more than a million downloads worldwide.
In October, The Times gave their new album 4 stars.
This film follows their visit to London that month.
Texts fades out as image fades in.
10:00:24:00 – 10:00:26:00 - Graphic of DAM logo appears over image.
10:00:26:00 – 10:01:13:00:
Montage of DAM rapping in Arabic, in the street and at a performance, with shots of their visit to London. No subtitles.
The words being rapped are an improvised version of their song: “Da Dam”
10:01:13:00 – Interview, in English:
Tamer: “Tamer from Dam.”
Mahmud: “Mahmud from Dam.”
Suhell: “Suhell Nafar…”
Mahmud: “From where?”
Suhell: “Backstreet Bo-… wait wait… from Dam.”
All: Laughter
Music
10:01:28:00 – Interview:
Mahmud: “DAM mean in Arabic: Eternity or Immortal; in Hebrew it’s Blood; in English it’s the official letter for Da Arabian MC’s; so.. this is DAM.”
Music (no subtitles) – shot of hotel room. Cut back to interview.
10:01:49:00 – Interview
Tamer: “This is the new album: Dedication; and it’s going out now in London. So we just came for a few.. for four gigs for interviews and stuff to promote it.”
Music (no subtitles) – shot of performance at Momo. Cut back to interview.
10:02:03:00 Interview
Mahmud: “The first four gigs: the first one was in The Barbican Centre, it was Ramadan nights.”
Music (no subtitles) – shot of performance at The Barbican. Cut back to interview.
Mahmud: “The second one was Elephants of Zion. It’s a community of young Jewish people.”
Tamer v/o with shots of Elephants of Zion:
“OK, close the door, nobody’s leaving out of here – we are taking you as hostages tonight!”
Tamer, in English, performing with audience response:
“We’re getting ready for Arabic RAP!”
Audience: “ARABIC!”
Tamer: “RAP!”
Audience: “ARABIC!”
Tamer: “I say rap, you say Arabic! RAP!”
Audience: “ARABIC!”
10:02:33:00 Interview
Mahmud: “The third one was at Momo’s”
Music (no subtitles) – shot of performance at Momo. Cut back to interview.
10:02:44 Interview
Mahmud: “The fourth was just free-styling in a place in Camden.”
Tamer: “Oh Bar.”
Mahmud: “Oh Bar. So we just grabbed the microphone for two minutes and had fun.”
Music (no subtitles) – shot of performance at Oh Bar.
10:03:06:00 Interview
Mahmud: “And we have a show in…”
Tamer: “We have a sound-check.”
Mahmud: “In, eh, three and a half hours we have the show, we’ll be on stage, in a place called The Venue. So it’s five show, ye-uh.”
Suhell: “Humseh beneneh hasul”
(from their song, meaning: five in your eyes)
Mahmud: “Humseh”
Music (no subtitles) – with shots of DAM in the street.
10:03:23:00 Music, with shots, of the performance at Momo – subtitled:
Tamer: “We’re strong, staying optimistic…
You won’t limit my hope by a wall of separation
If this barrier comes between my & my land
I’ll still be connected to Palestine
like an embryo to an umbilical cord…
10:03:33:00 Interview
Tamer: “Normally when I write I really care about the message. I really care about the message. But when I’m performing with the song, basically we just flow. It’s all about music. And between the songs we explain, we say a few things, because it’s also important to deliver the message.”
Music – with shot of performance at Momo. Subtitled:
All: “Why are the children of the world free…
…but I’m not free?”
10:03:55:00 Tamer addressing the audience in English at The Barbican:
“Some people call us terrorists. Some people love our hummus. And some people say: ‘Poor Arabs’. And I say: “Fuck the three of those guys – we have fucking culture!”
Audience cheer. Tamer says: “Yes-uh!”
10:04:13:00 Interview in pub. Title fades in and out reading:
“bbc radio interview”
Tamer: “We are trying to exist before we co-exist.”
Interviewer: “What does that mean? ‘Exist before we co-exist.’”
Tamer: “Like, you’re talking about living together. And in proper English, the word ‘living’ comes before the word ‘together’. So we are trying to live first, like they are living; we are trying to have country; we are trying to feel free, to sleep with the wife and bring kids without being a danger to anybody. Simple as that.”
10:04:39:00 Music – with shot of performance at Elephants of Zion. Subtitled:
Mahmud: “We are apart of a nation that does nothing…
…but make us feel like strangers..
Me? A stranger in my own country!”
10:04:43:00 Cut back to bbc radio interview.
Tamer: “And as soon as we start to educate our kids about their own culture, and not as losers, and those who lost the war, and as terrorists - like they are forcing us - and we have all that, and we exist mentally, and we exist.. uh batisilayia - financially, and we exist politically: then we can co-exist. The same things that you have, I want to have, because I deserve it. Then we can co-exist.”
10:05:09:00 Tamer addressing the audience in English, at The Barbican.
“And now we are the Palestinians who are carrying the Israeli passport. So basically this song is talking about how the whole worlds is treating us as Israelis, while Israel is treating us as Palestinians. And it’s called Stranger In My Own Country.”
10:05:27:00 Music – shot of performance at Momo. Subtitled:
Suhell: “The occupation has written our destiny…
Which is, that the whole world…
..till today is treating us a Israelis..
And Israel till tomorrow will treat us as Palestinians.”
All: “I’m a stranger in my own country…”
10:05:42:00 Main interview
Tamer: “Lid, where we live, is like, ten minutes from Tel Aviv. … But the mental distance is like, thousands of miles.”
10:05:53:00 Music – shot of performance at The Barbican. Subtitled:
Suhell: “Rap is our weapon…
We are bringing it from the slums of Lid…”
10:05:57:00 Interview
Tamer: “We brought all kind of celebrities and media to the area of Lid, and made a tour of the Arabic ghettoes, the Palestinian Arabic ghettoes. And they were shocked. You know, they come from Tel Aviv, to Ben Gurion - Ben Gurion is the airport - and Lid is just a city for them. They don’t know that there’s a third world living in-between.”
10:06:18:00 Music – shot of performance at The Barbican. Subtitled:
Mahmud: “People are looking for the beat…
..while he’s sitting on it.”
All: “Mim mim is here, who wants to join us?
Me, myself and I.”
Mahmud: “Why rhyme!? There’s no one listening..
Why rhyme!? There’s no one understanding..
Bringing the west to the east..
and in the end it’s our own..
10:06:33:00 Interview
Mahmud: “We’re bringing the alternative for CNN and for Fox News, and all this propoganda, which don’t show our side fairly. So, we are the people who bring it to them. We are telling them: don’t be too lazy to look for the information and to look for the knowledge, and don’t be just waiting for your knowledge like waiting for your food, like waiting for a pizza order – you know? Go and look for it! ‘Cause people have interest in showing you lies.”
Tamer: “I think, a lot of bad things wouldn’t happen, if the people didn’t just close their eyes and felt lazy to check on what people are doing in their names.”
10:07:23:00 Shot of The Barbican, then Momo. Tamer addresses the audience:
“Do you like riddles? You have tanks, you have airplanes, you have borders, you have walls. And I have only a stone. And the question is: who’s the terrorist? Let me check it out…”
10:07:35:00 Music – shot of performance at Elephants of Zion. Subtitled:
All: “Who’s the terrorist?
I’m the terrorist?!
How am I the terrorist..
..when you’ve taken my land?!
Who’s the terrorist?
You’re the terrorist!
You’ve taken everything I own..
..while I’m living in my homeland!
10:07:47:00 Interview
Tamer: “I’m going to speak freely: I didn’t really care about politics until one of my friends got killed. I think somebody needs a personal [clicks fingers] “snatch”. And I respect people who don’t need a personal snatch, and just knows what’s going on in Somalia, or knows what’s happening in Ethiopia, or knows what’s happening in Palestine, and they just get up and move because they want. Those people, I really respect them. But in general, I think people need to be dragged. And I cannot talk a lot about, eh, like about: ‘yeah American people don’t care’ – since I see that also in the Arabic governments people don’t care at the same time. So I think it’s a human things more than anything else.
Mahmud: “We read all the Arabic stories, all Arabic poets, like Ahlam Mosteghanemi or Najib Mahfuz, or Gibral Kahlil Gibran or Ghassan Kanafani. And we are touring round the world and meeting a lot of people, so it’s a lot of information in your mind. And you can see that in the songs. You can see how much we’ve educated ourselves.”
Suhell: “It’s not just about the education. You can see it also through us. Everybody devel-oped.. devel-o, developed his style. It “got better. Now we’re the best!”
10:09:20:00 Performance at Elephants of Zion. Tamer addresses the audience:
“Even if you are writing about.. music, if you are writing about politics, if you are writing about the street, whatever you want to write: respect the pen, and don’t just use catchy words. And how the fuck can you write good if you’ve never read. So read, and respect the pen. And this song is called: ‘Words’.”
10:09:39:00 Music begins. Subtitled:
Mahmud: “I’m swallowing them, never dissing them…
Giving them freedom of speech…
I’m in front of them…
Always stand behind them…
Sometimes get sick of them..
Sick of how you abuse them..
Gather them in line, with my pen I order them...
I’m their leader and the slave…”
10:09:56:00 Hotel room, Tamer, listening to iPod, talks to camera:
“You know Talib? Talib Kweli?…
There’s a line here, that can show you why we chose hip-hop – though he’s talking about the African Americans…
Alright man, this is the one:
‘And they say: it’s the white man I should fear.
But it’s my own kind doing all the killing here.’
So it can’t be good for Lid, you know?
You know, as I told you, Lid has a lot of Arab-on-Arab crimes, since it’s the biggest drug market in the Middle East. So you have Arabs killing Arabs, you know. Poverty leads to crimes…
Also, it’s original Cds, I don’t burn that shit…”
10:10:35:00 Performance at Elephants of Zion. Tamer addresses the audience:
“How the hell can I fight for Human Rights, when my hands are busy choking my own sisters? So this is dedicated to all my Muslim sisters, to all my Christian sisters, and to all my Jewish sisters. Women, girls – you are the true struggle in the world. So this is to all the women in my life, my mum, my friends, all of you over here – this is to the true Che Guevara!”
Music begins. Subtitled:
Tamer: “Silent cries from the one who dries our eyes
She opened her eyes and saw the gates forbidden
We all see it…
What is forbidden to me is forbidden to her…
What is allowed to me is forbidden to her.
Then what is allowed to her?!
Well, the word ‘allowed’…
...does not appear in her dictionary.
She puts us on our feet, and we step on her rights
All: Day by day, she continues living the same way
She is the first to wake up and the last to sleep
This is for you, the woman, mother of the house
This is from me, the man, the one…
..who builds walls of limitation around you.”
10:11:32:00 Interview with friend of the band:
Naama: “I’m Naama, I’m Israeli. I’m from Tel Aviv.
We were working together to bring Jews to the mixed Jewish and Arab cities, and to show them the realities there, and the realities of the occupation in the West Bank. And I think they are leaders in their communities, and they utilize their art in order to bring about a different message and to do educational projects, and to really enlighten the eyes of Jewish people living in Israel. They’re not anti-Jews, you know what I mean? They’re not anti-Jews.”
10:12:01:00 Performance at Elephants of Zion. Tamer addresses the audience:
“I would like you to meet Ori Shochat. He’s the DJ.”
Suhell: “And producer!”
[audience cheers]
Tamer: “And most of the beats, those amazing beats that you are listening to, is his beats. So he deserves a lot of respect.”
[audience cheers again]
Tamer: “OK. That’s before you knew he’s a Jew!”
10:12:25:00 Interview
Ori: [laughs] “Wassup!”
[music] “When I’m connected to DAM.. I mean, we obviously came fom different places, different sides of the.. discussion, or whatever. But I can still, like you said, from my human side I can still feel their fight. I mean, I don’t agree on everything, but basically, in general, I just.. I feel.. I’m with human rights and equality, you know.”
10:13:00:00 Music – performance at Elephants of Zion. Subtitled:
Suhell: “Don’t miss any of what we’re saying…
Our album is the new Intifida…
The lyrics are the stones…”
10:13:06:00 Interview
Ori: “As much as they’re assholes, I like being with them. I don’t know why. Nobody knows why.
I have nice experiences with them. Not just sexual.
[everyone laughs]
10:13:29:00 Music – performance at Momo. Subtitled:
“Everywhere I go I see borders…
...imprisoning humanity.
Why can’t I be free…
…like other children in this world?
10:13:38:00 Interview
Mahmud: “To come to peace, people should understand each other.”
Tamer: “Thank you very much. Buy the album. Virgin, HMV. Salum alekum.”
10:12:48:00 Music – performance at Elephants of Zion.
Subtitled as Tamer translates the song for the audience in English.
Tamer: “We need a new generation…
To expand the horizon…
To flip the history…
To get you out of your mind…
All: [now in Arabic] “We want…
…a new generation…
…of giants.”
Mahmud: “Shukran.”
[applause from the crowd. Fade to black]
10:14:28:00 Eight lines of credits appear consequentially, typewriter style,
in Rockwell bold font:
Produced, shot & edited by Elliot Manches
With thanks to:
DAM and Matt Robin
Laure Malca and Momo
Charlie Phillips and Jewdas
The Barbican and Lyric Pad
Ben Pollard and Naama Nagar
Special thanks to Zara Lababedi
10:14:47:00 Previous credits disappear, replaced by DAM logo and the text, typwriter style, in Rockwell bold font:
www.myspace.com/damrap
www.elliotmanches.co.uk
© elliot manches 2007
10:15:00:00 ENDS.
10:00:01:00 – 10:00:21:00:
Five lines of text appear consequentially, typewriter style, in Rockwell bold font:
DAM are three Israeli-born Palestinian rappers.
Their single, Min Erhabe (“Who’s The Terrorist?”)
has had more than a million downloads worldwide.
In October, The Times gave their new album 4 stars.
This film follows their visit to London that month.
Texts fades out as image fades in.
10:00:24:00 – 10:00:26:00 - Graphic of DAM logo appears over image.
10:00:26:00 – 10:01:13:00:
Montage of DAM rapping in Arabic, in the street and at a performance, with shots of their visit to London. No subtitles.
The words being rapped are an improvised version of their song: “Da Dam”
10:01:13:00 – Interview, in English:
Tamer: “Tamer from Dam.”
Mahmud: “Mahmud from Dam.”
Suhell: “Suhell Nafar…”
Mahmud: “From where?”
Suhell: “Backstreet Bo-… wait wait… from Dam.”
All: Laughter
Music
10:01:28:00 – Interview:
Mahmud: “DAM mean in Arabic: Eternity or Immortal; in Hebrew it’s Blood; in English it’s the official letter for Da Arabian MC’s; so.. this is DAM.”
Music (no subtitles) – shot of hotel room. Cut back to interview.
10:01:49:00 – Interview
Tamer: “This is the new album: Dedication; and it’s going out now in London. So we just came for a few.. for four gigs for interviews and stuff to promote it.”
Music (no subtitles) – shot of performance at Momo. Cut back to interview.
10:02:03:00 Interview
Mahmud: “The first four gigs: the first one was in The Barbican Centre, it was Ramadan nights.”
Music (no subtitles) – shot of performance at The Barbican. Cut back to interview.
Mahmud: “The second one was Elephants of Zion. It’s a community of young Jewish people.”
Tamer v/o with shots of Elephants of Zion:
“OK, close the door, nobody’s leaving out of here – we are taking you as hostages tonight!”
Tamer, in English, performing with audience response:
“We’re getting ready for Arabic RAP!”
Audience: “ARABIC!”
Tamer: “RAP!”
Audience: “ARABIC!”
Tamer: “I say rap, you say Arabic! RAP!”
Audience: “ARABIC!”
10:02:33:00 Interview
Mahmud: “The third one was at Momo’s”
Music (no subtitles) – shot of performance at Momo. Cut back to interview.
10:02:44 Interview
Mahmud: “The fourth was just free-styling in a place in Camden.”
Tamer: “Oh Bar.”
Mahmud: “Oh Bar. So we just grabbed the microphone for two minutes and had fun.”
Music (no subtitles) – shot of performance at Oh Bar.
10:03:06:00 Interview
Mahmud: “And we have a show in…”
Tamer: “We have a sound-check.”
Mahmud: “In, eh, three and a half hours we have the show, we’ll be on stage, in a place called The Venue. So it’s five show, ye-uh.”
Suhell: “Humseh beneneh hasul”
(from their song, meaning: five in your eyes)
Mahmud: “Humseh”
Music (no subtitles) – with shots of DAM in the street.
10:03:23:00 Music, with shots, of the performance at Momo – subtitled:
Tamer: “We’re strong, staying optimistic…
You won’t limit my hope by a wall of separation
If this barrier comes between my & my land
I’ll still be connected to Palestine
like an embryo to an umbilical cord…
10:03:33:00 Interview
Tamer: “Normally when I write I really care about the message. I really care about the message. But when I’m performing with the song, basically we just flow. It’s all about music. And between the songs we explain, we say a few things, because it’s also important to deliver the message.”
Music – with shot of performance at Momo. Subtitled:
All: “Why are the children of the world free…
…but I’m not free?”
10:03:55:00 Tamer addressing the audience in English at The Barbican:
“Some people call us terrorists. Some people love our hummus. And some people say: ‘Poor Arabs’. And I say: “Fuck the three of those guys – we have fucking culture!”
Audience cheer. Tamer says: “Yes-uh!”
10:04:13:00 Interview in pub. Title fades in and out reading:
“bbc radio interview”
Tamer: “We are trying to exist before we co-exist.”
Interviewer: “What does that mean? ‘Exist before we co-exist.’”
Tamer: “Like, you’re talking about living together. And in proper English, the word ‘living’ comes before the word ‘together’. So we are trying to live first, like they are living; we are trying to have country; we are trying to feel free, to sleep with the wife and bring kids without being a danger to anybody. Simple as that.”
10:04:39:00 Music – with shot of performance at Elephants of Zion. Subtitled:
Mahmud: “We are apart of a nation that does nothing…
…but make us feel like strangers..
Me? A stranger in my own country!”
10:04:43:00 Cut back to bbc radio interview.
Tamer: “And as soon as we start to educate our kids about their own culture, and not as losers, and those who lost the war, and as terrorists - like they are forcing us - and we have all that, and we exist mentally, and we exist.. uh batisilayia - financially, and we exist politically: then we can co-exist. The same things that you have, I want to have, because I deserve it. Then we can co-exist.”
10:05:09:00 Tamer addressing the audience in English, at The Barbican.
“And now we are the Palestinians who are carrying the Israeli passport. So basically this song is talking about how the whole worlds is treating us as Israelis, while Israel is treating us as Palestinians. And it’s called Stranger In My Own Country.”
10:05:27:00 Music – shot of performance at Momo. Subtitled:
Suhell: “The occupation has written our destiny…
Which is, that the whole world…
..till today is treating us a Israelis..
And Israel till tomorrow will treat us as Palestinians.”
All: “I’m a stranger in my own country…”
10:05:42:00 Main interview
Tamer: “Lid, where we live, is like, ten minutes from Tel Aviv. … But the mental distance is like, thousands of miles.”
10:05:53:00 Music – shot of performance at The Barbican. Subtitled:
Suhell: “Rap is our weapon…
We are bringing it from the slums of Lid…”
10:05:57:00 Interview
Tamer: “We brought all kind of celebrities and media to the area of Lid, and made a tour of the Arabic ghettoes, the Palestinian Arabic ghettoes. And they were shocked. You know, they come from Tel Aviv, to Ben Gurion - Ben Gurion is the airport - and Lid is just a city for them. They don’t know that there’s a third world living in-between.”
10:06:18:00 Music – shot of performance at The Barbican. Subtitled:
Mahmud: “People are looking for the beat…
..while he’s sitting on it.”
All: “Mim mim is here, who wants to join us?
Me, myself and I.”
Mahmud: “Why rhyme!? There’s no one listening..
Why rhyme!? There’s no one understanding..
Bringing the west to the east..
and in the end it’s our own..
10:06:33:00 Interview
Mahmud: “We’re bringing the alternative for CNN and for Fox News, and all this propoganda, which don’t show our side fairly. So, we are the people who bring it to them. We are telling them: don’t be too lazy to look for the information and to look for the knowledge, and don’t be just waiting for your knowledge like waiting for your food, like waiting for a pizza order – you know? Go and look for it! ‘Cause people have interest in showing you lies.”
Tamer: “I think, a lot of bad things wouldn’t happen, if the people didn’t just close their eyes and felt lazy to check on what people are doing in their names.”
10:07:23:00 Shot of The Barbican, then Momo. Tamer addresses the audience:
“Do you like riddles? You have tanks, you have airplanes, you have borders, you have walls. And I have only a stone. And the question is: who’s the terrorist? Let me check it out…”
10:07:35:00 Music – shot of performance at Elephants of Zion. Subtitled:
All: “Who’s the terrorist?
I’m the terrorist?!
How am I the terrorist..
..when you’ve taken my land?!
Who’s the terrorist?
You’re the terrorist!
You’ve taken everything I own..
..while I’m living in my homeland!
10:07:47:00 Interview
Tamer: “I’m going to speak freely: I didn’t really care about politics until one of my friends got killed. I think somebody needs a personal [clicks fingers] “snatch”. And I respect people who don’t need a personal snatch, and just knows what’s going on in Somalia, or knows what’s happening in Ethiopia, or knows what’s happening in Palestine, and they just get up and move because they want. Those people, I really respect them. But in general, I think people need to be dragged. And I cannot talk a lot about, eh, like about: ‘yeah American people don’t care’ – since I see that also in the Arabic governments people don’t care at the same time. So I think it’s a human things more than anything else.
Mahmud: “We read all the Arabic stories, all Arabic poets, like Ahlam Mosteghanemi or Najib Mahfuz, or Gibral Kahlil Gibran or Ghassan Kanafani. And we are touring round the world and meeting a lot of people, so it’s a lot of information in your mind. And you can see that in the songs. You can see how much we’ve educated ourselves.”
Suhell: “It’s not just about the education. You can see it also through us. Everybody devel-oped.. devel-o, developed his style. It “got better. Now we’re the best!”
10:09:20:00 Performance at Elephants of Zion. Tamer addresses the audience:
“Even if you are writing about.. music, if you are writing about politics, if you are writing about the street, whatever you want to write: respect the pen, and don’t just use catchy words. And how the fuck can you write good if you’ve never read. So read, and respect the pen. And this song is called: ‘Words’.”
10:09:39:00 Music begins. Subtitled:
Mahmud: “I’m swallowing them, never dissing them…
Giving them freedom of speech…
I’m in front of them…
Always stand behind them…
Sometimes get sick of them..
Sick of how you abuse them..
Gather them in line, with my pen I order them...
I’m their leader and the slave…”
10:09:56:00 Hotel room, Tamer, listening to iPod, talks to camera:
“You know Talib? Talib Kweli?…
There’s a line here, that can show you why we chose hip-hop – though he’s talking about the African Americans…
Alright man, this is the one:
‘And they say: it’s the white man I should fear.
But it’s my own kind doing all the killing here.’
So it can’t be good for Lid, you know?
You know, as I told you, Lid has a lot of Arab-on-Arab crimes, since it’s the biggest drug market in the Middle East. So you have Arabs killing Arabs, you know. Poverty leads to crimes…
Also, it’s original Cds, I don’t burn that shit…”
10:10:35:00 Performance at Elephants of Zion. Tamer addresses the audience:
“How the hell can I fight for Human Rights, when my hands are busy choking my own sisters? So this is dedicated to all my Muslim sisters, to all my Christian sisters, and to all my Jewish sisters. Women, girls – you are the true struggle in the world. So this is to all the women in my life, my mum, my friends, all of you over here – this is to the true Che Guevara!”
Music begins. Subtitled:
Tamer: “Silent cries from the one who dries our eyes
She opened her eyes and saw the gates forbidden
We all see it…
What is forbidden to me is forbidden to her…
What is allowed to me is forbidden to her.
Then what is allowed to her?!
Well, the word ‘allowed’…
...does not appear in her dictionary.
She puts us on our feet, and we step on her rights
All: Day by day, she continues living the same way
She is the first to wake up and the last to sleep
This is for you, the woman, mother of the house
This is from me, the man, the one…
..who builds walls of limitation around you.”
10:11:32:00 Interview with friend of the band:
Naama: “I’m Naama, I’m Israeli. I’m from Tel Aviv.
We were working together to bring Jews to the mixed Jewish and Arab cities, and to show them the realities there, and the realities of the occupation in the West Bank. And I think they are leaders in their communities, and they utilize their art in order to bring about a different message and to do educational projects, and to really enlighten the eyes of Jewish people living in Israel. They’re not anti-Jews, you know what I mean? They’re not anti-Jews.”
10:12:01:00 Performance at Elephants of Zion. Tamer addresses the audience:
“I would like you to meet Ori Shochat. He’s the DJ.”
Suhell: “And producer!”
[audience cheers]
Tamer: “And most of the beats, those amazing beats that you are listening to, is his beats. So he deserves a lot of respect.”
[audience cheers again]
Tamer: “OK. That’s before you knew he’s a Jew!”
10:12:25:00 Interview
Ori: [laughs] “Wassup!”
[music] “When I’m connected to DAM.. I mean, we obviously came fom different places, different sides of the.. discussion, or whatever. But I can still, like you said, from my human side I can still feel their fight. I mean, I don’t agree on everything, but basically, in general, I just.. I feel.. I’m with human rights and equality, you know.”
10:13:00:00 Music – performance at Elephants of Zion. Subtitled:
Suhell: “Don’t miss any of what we’re saying…
Our album is the new Intifida…
The lyrics are the stones…”
10:13:06:00 Interview
Ori: “As much as they’re assholes, I like being with them. I don’t know why. Nobody knows why.
I have nice experiences with them. Not just sexual.
[everyone laughs]
10:13:29:00 Music – performance at Momo. Subtitled:
“Everywhere I go I see borders…
...imprisoning humanity.
Why can’t I be free…
…like other children in this world?
10:13:38:00 Interview
Mahmud: “To come to peace, people should understand each other.”
Tamer: “Thank you very much. Buy the album. Virgin, HMV. Salum alekum.”
10:12:48:00 Music – performance at Elephants of Zion.
Subtitled as Tamer translates the song for the audience in English.
Tamer: “We need a new generation…
To expand the horizon…
To flip the history…
To get you out of your mind…
All: [now in Arabic] “We want…
…a new generation…
…of giants.”
Mahmud: “Shukran.”
[applause from the crowd. Fade to black]
10:14:28:00 Eight lines of credits appear consequentially, typewriter style,
in Rockwell bold font:
Produced, shot & edited by Elliot Manches
With thanks to:
DAM and Matt Robin
Laure Malca and Momo
Charlie Phillips and Jewdas
The Barbican and Lyric Pad
Ben Pollard and Naama Nagar
Special thanks to Zara Lababedi
10:14:47:00 Previous credits disappear, replaced by DAM logo and the text, typwriter style, in Rockwell bold font:
www.myspace.com/damrap
www.elliotmanches.co.uk
© elliot manches 2007
10:15:00:00 ENDS.