Recollection by Kamal Aljafari (2015) and Infiltrators by Khaled Jarrar (2014) illustrate the dual aesthetics of ruin and recovery that Catherine Russell identified in her studies of found footage films of the 1990s: Recollection is an essay film composed of extracts from Israeli and American films, “reversing” the invisibility of largely Palestinian residents in the portrayals of Aljafari’s home neighborhood by removing the Ashkenazi characters; and Infiltrators is an observational documentary composed of clandestine shooting that captures the diverse and often perilous ways in which Palestinians in the West Bank attempt to overcome the separation wall to reach their desired destinations. This aesthetic of ruin and recovery--informed by the geo-political effects of land usurpation, ethnic cleansing, and military occupation--intersects with the two kinds of temporality observed by Gertz and Khleifi operating in Palestinian cinema: that of historic (traumatic) time and that of the everyday, ongoing time. Examining Scenes from the Occupation in Gaza by Mustafa Abu Ali (1973) and To My Father by Gazawi filmmaker Abdessalem Shehata (2008), we see that the abject and the uncanny re-surface through this intersection. If, according to Catherine Russell, the found footage film is the salvage paradigm that produces an imaginary ethnography or “ethnographic temporality” inextricably linked to modernity, such an ethnography of Gaza highlights a political temporality that is at the same time spatial, where space and time inhabit each other and where modernity is anchored to its post-colonial history. What emerges are questions unique to Arab modernity and its "aftermath" in the context of Palestine that can never be unchained from the political arena. Gertz, Nurith and Khelifi, George. Palestinian Cinema: Landscape, Trauma and Memory. (Indiana University Press, 2008) Rahman, Najat. In the Wake of the Poetic. (Syracuse University Press, 2015) Russell, Catherine. Experimental Ethnography: The Work of Film in the Age of Video. (Duke University Press, 1999) Sabry, Tarik. “Revolutions in the age of ‘globalization’: between the trans-temporal and the trans-subjective” in Media, Culture & Society: 35(1), 2013 Yaqub, Nadia. Palestinian Cinema in the Days of Revolution. (University of Texas Press, 2018)