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FLUID FRAMES FROM THE PALESTINIAN DIASPORA showcases work from Palestinian filmmakers based in the country known as Canada.
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ABOUT THIS EVENT
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Join us for a special live-stream event with filmmakers Muhammad Nour-Elkhairy, Razan AlSalah, Rana Nazzal Hamadeh and Serene Husni (streaming and in discussion), as well as Rehab Nazzal (streaming).
FLUID FRAMES FROM THE PALESTINIAN DIASPORA showcases work from Palestinian filmmakers based in the country known as Canada. This program of provocative films visualizes displacement while exploring the paradox of simultaneously being temporary and permanent as a refugee, the distress Palestinians face from the refusal of right of return to their homeland and the bitter irony of living inside Canada’s settler-colonial state as survivors of settler colonialism themselves.
💬 DISCUSSION: A zoom webinar with the filmmakers will be held on Monday, March 22nd at 7PM EST (link in description & here: http://bit.ly/fluid-frames-palestinian-3)
📽️ STREAMING: The film program will be available to stream on Vimeo from Friday, March 19th at 12pm until Wednesday, March 24th at 11:59pm (ET).
This event is part of Israeli Apartheid Week - Montréal, and is co-presented with the Toronto Palestine Film Festival (TPFF) 🇵🇸.
🎟️ Registration for this event is through Eventbrite. Private links for streaming and webinar access will be sent via email.
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ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS
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🎬 PANELIST / SCREENING: Muhammad Nour-Elkhairy is a Palestinian filmmaker, video artist and film programmer based in Montreal. A graduate from the MFA in Studio Arts: Film Production at Concordia University, his work is interest in how power relations play out in the daily lives of individuals, and how they are maintained and mediated through Moving images.
🎬 PANELIST / SCREENING: Rana Nazzal Hamadeh is a Palestinian-Canadian artist and activist, immersed in community organizing both across Turtle Island and in occupied Palestine. Her work takes interest in the complexity of decolonial disruptions and in drawing attention and care back to the Land. Rana holds an MFA in Documentary Media from Ryerson University and a BA in Human Rights from Carleton University.
🎬 PANELIST / SCREENING: Razan AlSalah is a video artist investigating the material-aesthetics of dis/appearance of places and people in colonial image worlds, breaking these thresholds of view into elsewheres here, where colonialism no longer makes sense. Her work has been screened in community-based and international film festivals. She teaches at Concordia University in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.
🎬 PANELIST / SCREENING: Serene Husni is a writer, translator & filmmaker. She holds an MFA in Documentary Media from Ryerson University with distinction. Through "The Shoes Project Shorts" and together with Gerda Cammaer, Associate Professor in Film at Ryerson University, Serene is currently co-mentoring six refugee and immigrant women in making personal films centering shoes in their stories of migration to Canada.
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🎞️ SCREENING: Rehab Nazzal is a Palestinian-born multidisciplinary artist and educator based in Toronto. Her video, photography, sound, and installation works examine the image in relation to sound and the enduring human bodies as sites of oppression and sites of resistance. Nazzal’s work has been shown in Canada, Palestine, and internationally in both group and solo exhibitions and screenings.
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ABOUT THE FILMS
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📽️ BODIES IN MOTION / Rehab Nazzal / 2017 / 3'
BODIES IN MOTION sets in motion hundreds of photographs that capture the bodily movement of the Palestinian youth while protesting the Israeli military occupation forces during the 2015-2016 Uprising. It depicts the steps of stone slinging at the settle colonial army and merges individuals into the collective body of the Palestinian people.
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📽️ I WOULD LIKE TO VISIT / Muhammad Nour-Elkhairy / 2017 / 4'
I WOULD LIKE TO VISIT is a close up of a computer screen onto which someone is typing and editing text on a word-processing software. The process of text editing turns a simple desire to travel, into a complex paragraph that is soundtracked by the anxiety of having to deal with racist travel visas, immigration policies and the realities of settler colonialism. Complicating a simple desire by adding the social, cultural and political realities of being a Palestinian.
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📽️ P IS FOR PALESTINE / Muhammad Nour-Elkhairy / 2018 / 3'
P IS FOR PALESTINE shows an unnamed man in Amman, Jordan repeating difficult and politically-charged English words as he waits in an unknown ‘green room’. These decontextualized political words all include the letter P - a letter that doesn't exist in the Arabic language and pronouncing it is coded socially and economically. Instead of practising the content of his political speech, the man is practising his pronunciation, reducing politics to a su