Text by Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi Augusta Palmer – a filmmaker, painter, scholar, a DooBeeDoo writer and a very good friend of mine – made it possible that her documentary film The Hand of Fatima (2009, 75 min.) will be screened as part of this fall’s Meet the Maker series at the New York Public Library’s Library of the Performing Arts […]
This personal documentary about music critic Robert Palmer and his musical family, The Master Musicians of Jajouka, was a Critic’s Pick at New York Magazine, who called it “deeply compelling.” The documentary, which screened at New York’s Anthology Film Archives as well as at a broad range of film festivals in 2009 and 2010, features interviews […]
Text by Augusta Palmer Hi there friends & fans of The Hand of Fatima, We’re thrilled that The Hand of Fatima will be a part of the 19th Annual Woods Hole Film Festival on the Cape this year, and Producer/Editor Chris Arnold and I will both be there for the screening!
Date: June 18, 2010 Venue: the New Jersey International Film Festivalsm Summer 2010
The Hand of Fatima is a feature-length documentary structured by two parallel journeys to the remote Moroccan village of Jajouka, where a hereditary band plays music older than history. The first journey begins in the 1960s, when critic Robert Palmer uncovers “cryptic allusions” to Jajouka in the novels of William Burroughs. On assignment for […]
