Nahed Awwad
, 2006
, 3 min
“Not Just Any Sea!” encapsulates the yearning of Palestinians trapped in the West Bank for beachy shores that they are forbidden from visiting. In a romantic gesture, with waves caressing her feet, filmmaker Nahed Awwad appears to have a poetic longing for her lover. In a three minute monologue, her agony is revealed to be…
, 2003
, 15 min
Documenting the Art Installation “Going for a Ride?” made by the Palestinian Artist Vera Tamari. The installation is a statement on the aggressive and deliberate crushing of hundreds of privately-owned cars by Israeli tanks in Ramallah and El-Bireh during the military incursions in the two towns in 2002. It focuses on crushed cars because of…
June 2022
Annemarie, Enas I. Al-Muthaffar, Nahed Awwad, Ayreen Anastas, Larissa Sansour
The Second Intifada heralded a particularly fresh, urgent and experimental approach to filmmaking, in tune with the uprisings to which they contributed. Working at a distance from both the main political organizations and, often, the aesthetic insistences of Global Northern art cinema funding, filmmakers took advantage of accessible technologies to forge new notions of freedom. The prolific…
