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…
February 2024
Date and Time: Thursday February 1st at 7:30PM EST Address : Anthology Film Archives, 32 2nd Ave, New York, NY 10003 Get Tickets Here Charged with the conviction that it’s vitally important to present films that shed light on the Palestinian experience, that humanize Palestinian civilians, and that explore the historical context for the current war, we will…
June 2022
Larissa Sansour, Annemarie, Enas I. Al-Muthaffar, Nahed Awwad, Ayreen Anastas
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…
Larissa Sansour
, 2012
, 9 min
Nation Estate synopsis: With its glossy mixture of computer-generated imagery, live actors, and an arabesque electronica soundtrack, the Nation Estate film explores a vertical solution to Palestinian statehood. Palestinians have their state in the form of a single skyscraper: the Nation Estate. One colossal high-rise houses the entire Palestinian population – now finally living the high life.
July 2021
Larissa Sansour, Meriem Bennani, Mariam Mekiwi
Disrupted Pasts, Displaced Futures is a selection of moving image works by contemporary artists from the Middle East and North Africa, blending science fiction, arabfuturism, and magic realism to tackle themes of displacement, migration, and climate crisis. Responding to an unstable present through the lens of the future, these alternate realities resist hegemonic narratives and open…
