Theo Panagopoulos (who has a Greek father, a Lebanese-born mother and Palestinian grandparents) lives and works in Scotland, where he discovered two silent 16mm color films made in the 1930s and 1940s by a Scottish missionary who had decided to film the floral splendor of the Holy Land. In Panagopoulos’ montage of this bucolic archive footage, he gradually zooms in on the Arab ...