March
Memory and Revolution
This program, curated by Samira Makki, is a month-long invitation to reflect on the way that Palestinian memory has been mediated through film and other mediums that serve revolutionary struggle.
Through the interplay between film and other mediums, this program’s takes as its premise is the significance of memory to the Palestinian revolutionary struggle. Beginning with the memory of film itself, the first week (4 to 10th of March) explores how film remembers the revolution of 68-82. The featured films emphasize the role of montage in the reconfiguration of memory as they engage footage from the partly looted and partly destroyed film archive of the Palestine Film Unit. The second week (11 to 17th of March) proposes diverse approaches to mapping like a counter-cartographic commentary or a digital restoration of a Palestinian family home. During the third week (18 to 24th of March), we learn about the political affordances of artistic labor through the canvas and its role in mediating the revolutionary struggle across distinct periods. And finally, in keeping with the importance of oral history to Palestinian memory, the films of the fourth week (25 to 31st of March) trace personal recollections of manifold returns precisely by inviting us to ponder the difference that repetition might engender.
