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Still from In Vitro by Larissa Sansour
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Still from Electrical Gaza by Rosalind Nashashibi
Screening
Aspects of Palestine in Film
7 Mar 2024
Regular hours
- Thu, 07 Mar
- 17:00 – 18:30
Free admission
Address
- 128 Bullingdon Road
- Oxford
- OX4 1QP
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Oxford Tube, frequent times, 100 minutes from London to Oxford. Drop at St Clements stop and it is a 10 minutes walk.
- Frequent direct trains travel from London Paddington, Birmingham New Street, Manchester Piccadilly and Liverpool Lime Street. The journey time takes approx. 1hr from London. Many visitors prefer to take the speedier option of a taxi from the station to either the High Street or Bullingdon Road, however buses are also available from the station. You need to ask for the Cowley Road stop.
A screening of films that focus on Palestinian experiences, histories, and speculative futures by two renowned artists, Larissa Sansour and Rosalind Nashashibi, followed by a conversation with the two London-based artists chaired by Anthony Gardner and Oreet Ashery.
About
In Vitro is a sci-fi short filmed in black and white, set in the aftermath of an eco-disaster. An abandoned nuclear reactor under the biblical town of Bethlehem has been converted into an enormous orchard. Using heirloom seeds collected in the final days before the apocalypse, a group of scientists are preparing to replant the soil above. Central to their discussion is the intricate relationship between past, present and future, with the Bethlehem setting providing a narratively, politically and symbolically charged backdrop.
Larissa Sansour was born in Jerusalem and grew up in Bethlehem in Palestine. She works mainly with film, and also produces installations, photos and sculptures. Central to her work is the dialectics between myth and historical narrative. Her work often uses science fiction to address social and political issues, dealing with memory, inherited traumas, power structures and nation states.
In Electrical Gaza Rosalind Nashashibi combines her footage of Gaza, and the fixer, drivers and translator who were her constant companions, with animated scenes. She presents Gaza as under a spell; isolated, suspended in time, under siege and always highly charged. She shows us Gaza as she experienced it in the quiet pause before the onslaught of Israeli bombardment in the summer of 2014.
British Palestinian artist Rosalind Nashashibi is a painter and filmmaker. Her films chronicle intimate moments of contemporary life across diverse circumstances with a deeply empathetic and personal approach. In both her films and paintings, one piece often permeates into the next one, creating an ongoing dialogue between participants and bodies of work.
