From the award-winning Director of Iraq In Fragments
American documentary filmmaker James Longley (Academy Award nominee, Iraq In Fragments) traveled to the Gaza Strip in January of 2001, planning to stay for two weeks and collect preliminary material for a film about the Palestinian intifada. He threw away his return ticket and stayed for another 3 […]

New York Times
Reviewed by: A.O. Scott
“Hard Life in Gaza, Through 13-Year-Old Eyes”
Like most news reports and television images coming out of the Middle East these days, “Gaza Strip,” an unsparing new documentary by James Longley, offers little reason for optimism. The film, which opens today at the Anthology Film Archives in the East Village, was […]

The Seattle Times
Reviewed by: John Hartl
“Compelling Palestinian Film Benefits From Narrow Focus”
The stares of lost, desperate Palestinian children dominate this surprisingly personal documentary, which was shot two years ago by James Longley, an Oregon filmmaker who once studied cinematography at a Moscow film school.
The images in “Gaza Strip” are often as beautiful as they are […]

Gaza Strip, The Village Voice
reviewed by: J. Hoberman
Gaza Strip, a feature-length video by American filmmaker James Longley, is a documentary to make the stones weep — as shameful as it is scary. Longley spent three months during the spring of 2001 in Gaza. Ariel Sharon had just won the Israeli election and the second […]