YES REPEAT NO Director Up Next on Tom Needham’s SOUNDS OF FILM

Director Michael Moshe Dahan Talks YES REPEAT NO on Tom Needham’s SOUNDS OF FILM

Yes Repeat No is Michael Moshe Dahan’s complex, layered conceptual feature film. In the film, three actors audition to play the Palestinian-Jewish actor and activist, Juliano Mer-Khamis, a former IDF paratrooper who defiantly identified as “100% Palestinian and 100% Jewish.” During a tense rehearsal meant to determine which of them is most suited to authentically portray Juliano Mer-Khamis, the three Julianos find their sense-of-self fractured and disrupted.

Assassinated on the steps of the theatre he founded in Jenin, Juliano Mer-Khamis considered himself a living embodiment of the Palestine-Israel conflict. Though code-switching between the conflicting identities he inhabited, he was viewed as an Arab in Israel, and a Jew in Jenin.

Yes Repeat No asks whether it is remembering our past—or, instead, forgetting it— that allows us to break
cycles of identity and conflict.

Yes Repeat No screens at the Stony Brook Film Festival followed by a Q&A with Michael Moshe Dahan and the production team on Thursday, July 27, 2023 at 9:30PM EDT at the Staller Center for the Arts.

Michael Moshe Dahan (writer, director, producer) is an Israeli-American scholar, filmmaker, and artist who earned his MFA in Studio Art with a Critical Theory Emphasis from UC Irvine in 2012. His current work interrogates the entwined legacies of descendants of victims and perpetrators of the Nakba and

considers the transmission of such phantasmatic legacies across generations. His experimental film, Two Points of Failure, was screened at the Rotterdam, Edinburgh, Jihlava, Bucharest, and Melbourne International Film Festivals, as well as the Tribeca Film Festival and the MAK Center for Art and Architecture in Los Angeles. Before receiving his MFA, he spent a decade working as a film
executive.

Tom Needham's THE SOUNDS OF FILM is the nation's longest running film and music themed radio show. For the past 30 years, the program has delivered a popular mix of interviews and music to listeners all over Long Island, parts of Connecticut and streaming worldwide live on the internet at wusb.fm. Past people interviewed for the show include Laurie Anderson, Howard Shore, Carter Burwell, Alexander Payne, Wallace Shawn, Kenneth Lonergan, Rory Kennedy, composer Mike Patton, Alexandra Pelosi, Nile Rodgers, Kim Allen & Kathryn Kluge, The Silk Road Ensemble, and Philip Glass' music director/conductor Michael Riesman.

Worldwide listeners of the SOUNDS OF FILM can listen to the internet livestream this Thursday at 9:30 pm at wusb.fm.