September 2024
Basma al-Sharif, Emily Jacir, Coleman Collins, Sky Hopinka, Joe Namy, Oraib Toukan
ON LANDSCAPES, RUINS AND PATTERNS OF REMEMBERING Featuring work by: Basma AlSharif, Coleman Collins, Sky Hopinka, Emily Jacir, Joe Namy, and Oraib ToukanCurated by Fawz Kabra Screening of Remind me to Remember to Forget, Mnemonics of Shape and Reason, 15 Palestinian Minutes in Palestine, Lydda Airport, Libretto-o-o, Specular fiction, and CAPITALFollowed by Q&A with Emily Jacir and Coleman Collins ON LANDSCAPES, RUINS AND PATTERNS OF REMEMBERING is…
Emily Jacir
, 2019
, 43 min
A close friend is asked to start an investigation before an inevitable act occurs. Interlacing images, textures, movements, traces and sounds of over a century, letter to a friend recounts in minute detail a home and street in Bethlehem.
Synopsis: A close friend is asked to start an investigation before an inevitable act occurs. Interlacing images, textures, movements, traces and sounds of over a century, letter to a friend recounts in minute detail a home and street in Bethlehem.
November 2021
Mona Benyamin, Akram Zaatari, Emily Jacir
Ib’atli Gawab / Signed, Sealed, Delivered: On longing and political resistance through epistolary forms in four essay-films. Inspired by two love songs—Sabah Fakhri’s Ib’atli Gawab (Arabic for “send an answer my way”) and Stevie Wonder’s Signed, Sealed, Delivered—this program explores the affective and political potential of letter-writing and other epistolary forms through four films by Mona Benyamin, Emily…