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the capital of jerusalem. everyone is welcome, but the default spectrum that maintain the quality project, that's what we refuse. was one of the founders of settlement with this and the story of juice through the eyes of its own people, segregation, occupations, discrimination, injustice. this is upper side in the front, the 1st century drew for them, a rock and a hard place anal 0 news . high as i me. okay. you're watching the stream. have you heard the one about the use railey activist? he found that telling jokes with an effective piece building strategy between israelis and palestinians. it's a good one. meet, know him, stop everyone. if you're lucky, not the most that it is there, a guy that's getting my name is norm,

white liberals can't pronounce my name. so they call me chomsky my last name is schuster. so i have a name of a jewish european professor from mit in a body of a persian wonder woman. my parents are considered traitors the left wing liberal. so they raised me in a mixed community where jews and palestinians lived together. my best friend, an inch of the palestinian. she looks like, did you have did i look like? and then just next to her when we cross kick point the soldiers, they stop our car, they hit on her and they look at me that a give me id please. that was a clip from the new odyssey, a witness documentary code of reckoning with laughter. we are joined by the subject of the documentary and also by the phil mike as i hello. hello to you know, entities yourself to stream audience. hi everyone. thank you for having us.

and i'm super happy and excited to be here and speak to you. so i'd love to have you on the stream. tell everybody who you are, what you do. hi, my name is amber ferris, and i'm a documentary filmmaker based in new york from canada, originally, originally lebanese. and yeah, really excited to be here by to have ladies on youtube audience. you're watching live right now. you can jump into the conversation as well. what you want to off know, what do you want to amber? the comment section, a wait for day. know when, when i was out, i want to make a documentary, what was your reaction? will my amber and i actually know each other from before? so my 1st reaction was like, because i was going through so much at the time when i was in the us working on my comedy and of the question i was constantly getting from everyone is this being

documented is, is being documented and i love amber and i love her work and we've been friends for years also, and i know that she gets me also as a woman, as a woman with middle eastern heritage, with you know, which we met in ramallah and she was working on her previous film. so whenever would like i'm grabbing a camera and following you. it was november 2019 has no idea what was going to happen next that i was like yeah, let's do it. i didn't know what i was agreeing too crazy. what was the story that you're telling a reckoning with laughter? well, we're really telling a story about at the know, and her journey from a un working at the u. n. to, to, to comedy. and she had this opportunity to sort of to, to be a comedian in the us. and cobra took her home and it left her to deal with like sort of all of the things that she had left behind. that she was like escaping from

in israel. and it's really just her, her own personal story. now, do you consider yourself now to be a full time comedian? this is what you do. this is your life. this is your career path. i am super lucky to say, yeah, yeah, i made a huge change in my life and i used to work for the you when actually i was working on a project building project. it was aiming to counter extremely in israeli society. make the story short, are we failed? and, and i, and i was fired from my job that was like 4 years ago. and i was literally sitting alone in the dark with not really a clear idea what's happening. and i think my creative muscles were thirsty for expressing themselves, and i think my generation, our world is thirsty for creativity for resistance through creativity. and i wanted

to offer that with my languages, with my skills, with my capabilities on stage, with my identities, with my life story, sorry for the ambulance in the background. and it's incredible that is a comedian. i feel like i'm being listened to more then when i was in the diplomatic or political world, i have the heart of an activist and it was always in between the serious work and the creative work. and today i'm super, super, super lucky to to, to say that, yeah, i'm 100 percent committed to impact through this tire writing through creativity. we need to retail the story of the we need to resist in any creative mean means that we can, as our politicians continue to fail in the system continues to fail. us people are thirsty for new voices. what light being an oil you know,

is performing because you've got to see that and you get to feel what that feeling is like in a comedy space where you have somebody who's unusual in where he comes from. and the story that she sharing. yeah, i mean it's, it's really amazing. what's amazing about no honesty when she's when she's performing in front of palestinians is, is really interesting in front of eric in general like she did at the, at the coffee festival, the comedy festival in dearborn. it's just what. ready she create on stage with them is really something special. because at 1st they're very play kind of like suspect and then they sort of warm up to her. and then as well as when, you know, when she's the time that i've been able to be with her, it's been in the, in the us and, and yeah, it's just been, it's been magical. it's really interesting to see how, how everyone sort of laugh at the same, at the same job, to sort of

a common language. and in comedy, no, i'm going to put 50. this is from lower friedman. she's the president of the foundation for middle east peace. she has a question for you have a listen and then come immediately off the back of the video here. we got the tradition, really sharp political humor. and here i'm thinking of shows like they're at and i'm thinking of the famous guess. having the jewish people suffer enough and what i'm wondering is today as the base for political discussion around the till the 20th and israel's treatment of palestinians gets ever and narrower insight. israel is the role and the importance of humor in getting past people's defences and keeping these issues in the public debate even greater than offend for oh, yes. i can't even tell

you how much of a big, big, big yes it is. and you know, it sounds like a cliche, but comedy i think, saved my life or save the ways in which that i think about change or not. because let's think, you know, let's take my identity for example, i'm jewish. i have iran in heritage. my mother is in iranian, do was born in iran. i heard far see it home. and i grew up with posting in, so my arabic influence and i have been an activist all my life and i've tried to do so many things throughout my life. and the only space in which i'm able to dress these stories and to use the talents that i have to use the language that i have in order to reframe and retail, the stories that are so crucial to retail them here is through this through this outlet and i think that this is something that jews and something that we have in

common. our tragedy on our side, being the, on the person inside, also being the, not the person in catastrophe. our suffering is central to our comedy, our suffering, and the survival mode that we've been in, or what we need to address for the future is at the center of also what we should be laughing about. very crucially, when i do my said i or comedy in r o b, can i speak directly as a jewish israeli woman to the arab world, to arabs, to palestinian? i'm not only doing comedy and i become also telling the look there is an alternative identity here. there is a woman who looks middle eastern and she is that there are not for intelligence purposes, not for what we were taught here, that i need to spy on you to be. army structures is not followed up. this is me

trying to create something completely new with the audience that he's meant to voice criticism in our shares language. i have to show yourself a thing that just cracked me up and it was just a look. a look at the end of the i know is rolling her eyes in an epic way. this gentleman with what you did on stage, this is just after. okay, what you paid on stage? it was amazing, wasn't comedy, it was cultural activism, and then known as a whole. so i is a round around the rounds again. why did you leave in? as a know, you can tell us what you are, rolling your eyes at cultural activities or after you stop. i left it in because it was, it was really cute. it was funny and also rami is non friend friends, and it's no way that your friend is you know, being so gracious and you're just like, come on like, you know,

i'm explain yourself, look, i mean, the whole idea of being a committing is harvard and having all these, like 3 i called my show at harvard court distance, my ad because i could take myself seriously at this point. them, me didn't. i'm trying to like, break down the seriousness of this. and you know, it puts me in an embarrassing position. sometimes when i'm like your comedy changes the world and create the blah, blah, blah, blah. i'm like, oh my god, i want to make people laugh and like, you know, again, is that wonderful? i will thank you for doing it for us to live on tv. appreciate it. so you to come in. this is live you constantine. thank you live you for for watching the show. maybe getting everyone to jo can love, could be the bridge that could connect them, move forward and put everything behind after all this pilot can accommodate all of

off ease. got ny, iif you start. ember. did you want her job? no. go ahead. go ahead. i mean, it's not me and it's okay to be nice. navy is not negative. it's just i'm not sure this is been you know, this is the need. the point is that i know that at this point we have no who way of really getting people together. we have no way of you know, doing these like failed dialogue groups and trying to think about, you know, no one wants to hear the word piece. and, and therefore, i think that's where the creative muscles have to really, really, really engage in work. so the, if the point is just to bring people together, then there is something missing there. the point is to suggest something new to be

an alternative, to smash the people in power with joke so that they look at themselves and hear me and think of what they're doing to make the voice play. people who are oppressed, heard by someone who is supposed to be on the other side, but he's actually, you know, and so the dorothy with them. so it's like a lot of things that come into it. yeah, i think norm says it in the film, right, like with palestinians, she's not teaching them anything that they don't know. you can't teach the oppressed, they press note. and so what she's doing with them is sorta just creating something that's quite special. so they, like, she says they're seen and heard, but i think with israelis and with jewish american there's a little bit more work there that she's trying to do in trying. it's not necessarily about co existence within in any way. it's really, it's really trying to create like a co invest and, you know, i guess it's,

she's trying to move the jewish audience a little bit more. so i think it's more than just bringing people together. there is an actual strategy and point to it. anew chain, because what 89 says, i really love the film, especially the sequences shot during quarantine. really demonstrated what is possible. i try not to spoil is take of ever i want to spend 25 minutes watching reckoning with laughter. it's really worth it. but at some point, and this was last spring. no, i got sick and she got cove it and she was back in israel. try not to tell over the entire story. and she read in her recovery. she was sent to the hotel where people had mo cove it, they would recover from covey there, and they were club faith. and this is where i'm going to hand over to lou exit so you can experience the class as well. have

a look the flash. okay, got you on the, on the monitor, the because he is not on the shield them by month the on a simple the fall in the corner. and you know, you have this ability to find laughter in dark things and also seriousness in laughter at the same time. so there's something special about this hotel that you mentioned that really comes out that really jealous is your philosophy of israelis and palestinians. take offense exclaim, why was it it was this surreal. 2 weeks, you know, your old sake,

we were the only people in the world who are hugging kissing i was doing comedy shows in the lobby. i was the only comedian in the world that had shows not everything was real, including the way we were treated. we were treated all of us as equals. we were getting the same. the same sheets the same towel. we were 6 people under a system that you know, that intended to take care of us equal in, so that we can all get released. people wanted to stay for free right in the hotel and is up and you know, as a child, i mean i grew up in the only experimental, you know, israeli palestinian community between jerusalem and to be where there was such a huge experiment for this distance share your pace,

i'm just going to show you where this place is. so a waste of pieces where you, where you grew up and deliberately israelis and palestinians live side by side. and this is why i know our big i attended the school there. my whole life of been like, i've been raised the, the, you know, the live of peace kind of girl. and i also learned the flow in the peace movement and how well you know the flows the and very can. the center middle class is very much and you know, not reaching out to marginalized community and more and more and more and more criticism that i have also as a means middle eastern jewish, you know, we call it, it may be quality color. we can get, you know, the is a very, very complex issue, but i grew up not having the common profile of like a left is, you know, i can, i,

these really left it. so i grew up with this criticism that i have on the peace movement in israel. and then i walk into the hotel corona, there are people from the, their friends, you know, contradicting side. the society, you know, from all classes, from all different religious communities, is really for the students from all walks of the to societies. and the radical compassion that i witnessed in this hotel was mind blowing. i could not find the animosity that it printed the inequality that exist outside i would disconnected for me for 2 weeks carry over. this is going to kill, you know, people were and the simplicity of us getting the same resources and treated the same. and what he brought from people, what he brought out from people and what

a quality can do when we are treated the same when their resources are being distributed to, to people what he brought out of people. i was shocked and amazed. and of course, when i left the hotel, the things went back to the same, you know, depressing in, in justices that exist outside. but i witnessed a very, very small example of what radical compassion and radical ecology a can do when, when it will happen, when we end occupation, when both are not oppressed. also internally in the israel society when we have so much fixing to doing the entire system here. and it was just a glimpse of an example that i'm trying to hold onto its memory. i have a question for you if some rough, a sure enough, and he wants to know about the filmmaking process. a particular question. have a listen, have a look at someone who films

a lot of left newman work in particular left as jewish movement in the us. my question to amber, ah, one of the most moving scenes that was captured was in the hotel during covey lockdown what norm called the microcosm. there was so much going on that you brought to us, but so much was going on simultaneously. so you must have missed the moment that happened in the periphery or heard of one that happened after. is there a moment that you've heard of in that space, really anywhere in the film that you wish you could have captured and brought to us . maybe you could bring it to us now. sure, i mean, like, yeah, there was so much going on at the hotel and there. the filmmaking process during that time was quite difficult because it's hard to sell film. so it's hard for me

to have a camera like sort of on herself the whole time as she's experiencing everything. and so i was having to get up really early in the morning. i'm based in brooklyn and talk and find the people that were around her, which were sort of younger palestinians, and israelis that could, that could film for me. and there was a lot of, you know, really amazing touching stories that came in relationships that know i'm had and what relationship with, with a woman named rafa who became very close to in the, in the film who was, i believe you can probably feel it her in a bit more, but she was who she had nurse so she was like, what did she do? i mean, she was a midway. right. and who is there had left her her i think her husband had just passed away and. and she had 5 children or something like that. and i think just

the relationship with her. no, i was just really, really touching, but we weren't able. we didn't have like the footage to be able to sort of tell the story completely. no, i wanted to show you some of the comments that we've had back from the reviews of reckoning with laughter. have a look. it was really special. unique. see no one do stand up for people of all different kinds of backgrounds from is rarely to americans to palestinians and i hope in the future we could see more inclusiveness. here in the united states. we had the chance for no harm to come speak on persian real podcast back in 2019. so right before she began her studies at harvard and it was pretty amazing just to watch that journey unfold and you know, we had her on because the same issues that are prevalence in her comedy routine is the same for us being that where persian and jewish and, you know, we knew that we differ on some of these topics,

but we love speaking with her and she has this lightness that she's able to bring when discussing these issues. i think the documentary highlights really well. oh, do you feel the power of jokes? that's what they say is that there is power in being funny, but it also being political as well. the politics and the jokes. they kind of go hand in hand for you. yeah. i always make fun of myself that i don't know from the only committee in that. after i tell jokes i cry. like and i told, i mean amber you know, when we met in november 2019 in brooklyn and ember looked at me and she's like,

i'm grabbing a camera and i'm following you. i had no idea what's going to happen. i knew, you know, i was, i was touring with months, you brawny and iranian comedian that i admired that really, really put me on stages to, you know, to, for his opening act at the kennedy center. big comedy club that i didn't think that i'll get to so fast and things were being booked and i was writing and there is something about being far away from me and doing my comedy over there. it was easy . i was fueled with laughter with material, you know, i went to do to see the dolly landline and this meeting with the dalai lama brought me like that was the end segment of my show and supposed to happen. and they went to claim number. so high o in march on march a to perform for a women's day in front of the jewish community in ohio. and i come back and they

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