Uprooted Palestinians are at the heart of the conflict in the M.E Palestinians uprooted by force of arms. Yet faced immense difficulties have survived, kept alive their history and culture, passed keys of family homes in occupied Palestine from one generation to the next.
A film that follows a flourishing year in the life of Gilad Atzmon, one of modern music’s greatest saxophonists. In addition to performing with someof music’s greatest acts, such as Pink Floyd and Sir Paul McCartney, Atzmonis also one of Europe’s most controversial writers and public speakers inopposition to Israel.
The film explores Gilad’s complex nature at times a gentle giant, warm,charismatic and somewhat shy at other times a deeply passionate musicianand advocate for what he sees as justice in Palestine. Born into a pro-Zionistfamily and serving briefly in the first Lebanon War, Gilad had a dramaticturnaround; he quit the army, picked up his sax and exiled himself to London,declaring himself an enemy to the Israeli state.
Since then he has produced some of the modern era’s greatest Jazz albums,and collaborated with Ian Dury, Paul McCartney and Sinead O’ Connor. In music he is a ‘feisty improviser’ as one critic put it, comparing him to the likes of Charlie Parker. In his political and philosophical ideas, he is blunt andoutspoken. His ideas on Israel and “Jewishness” have upset many people, someof whom have gone to the extreme of labeling him a holocaust denier and ananti-Semite – charges that Gilad strongly rejects. In Gilad’s life, music andpolitics are inseparable.
The film follows Gilad in the most flourishing time of his career, as he recordsalbums with Robert Wyatt, the blockheads, and gigs with Nigel Kennedy; getsinvited to TV programs and panel events all over the globe; pleases hissupporters and admirers, while seriously offending his opponents who, ratherthan try to engage Atzmon in debate, try to censor his right to free speech byapplying pressure tactics on the venues he plays his music in an where he hasbeen invited to speak on what he calls Jewish Identity Politics.
“Gilad and All That Jazz” offers a unique insight in to the life, ideas, music andmotivations driving the great Saxophonist.
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