Film of the Week
Curated by Samira Makki
memory/map
31°42'49.5"N 35°10'13.9"E (2023)
Experimental | 11m
31°42'49.5"N 35°10'13.9"E explores memory, loss, and resistance through the virtual reconstruction of a family home. Using 3D imagery and an intimate voiceover, the piece attempts to rebuild the house in Al Makhrour, a site near Bethlehem in the West Bank that has belonged to the artist’s family for generations. Today, the house faces the threat of demolition by Israeli settlers, placing its physical presence and the memories it holds at risk of erasure.
Director: Francisca Khamis Giacoman
Text and editing: Francisca Khamis Giacoman
Voices: Labibe Khamis, Eduardo Khamis B., Constanza Khamis, Eduardo Khamis, Andrés Khamis, Francisca Khamis, Siwar Kraitem.
3D Environment: Finn Wagner.
Sound: Constanza Castagnet.
Made with the support of: Het Nieuwe Instituut, NL
Unforming Zionism (2022)
Experimental | 16m
Unforming Zionism (2022) proposes a counter-cartographic framework for examining colonial infrastructures. Taking the Haifa Governmental Hospital, built in 1938 in Palestine, as a case study, it reconstructs, through a speculative platform, the material, economic, and political networks that made the project possible, revealing the collusion between Zionist settler entities and the British Mandate in facilitating the dispossession of Palestinians.
Director: Khaled Al Bashir
Your father was born a 100 years old, and so was the Nakba (2017)