Homage by Assassination

An early short by Elia Suleiman, later the director of Divine Intervention and It Must Be Heaven. A Palestinian filmmaker spends an anguished night alone in his New York apartment during the first Gulf War.

However much he tries to shut out the world outside, images of past wars in the Middle East keep coming back to haunt him. The film already shows the dry, silent humour that would define Suleiman’s cinema.