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Year

2017

Duration

1 mins

I Would Like to Visit Israel

I would like to visit Israel is a video art piece that contextualises the desire to travel to Israel within the larger frame work of settler colonialism, the Palestinian diaspora and racist travel visa policies, by articulating it from the perspective of an unnamed Palestinian character with a Jordanian passport. Through on-screen text editing, the project also introduces and questions notions of solidarity between indigenous struggles in North America and Palestine, and problematises the notion of multiculturalism as celebrated by the North American states and Israel.

Director

Countries

Year

2017

Premiere

Duration

4 mins

A Rough History (of a Destruction of Fingerprints)

‘To live means to leave traces’ – Walter Benjamin

We were huddled in front of the thin light of a fire in an abandoned house on a cold January night in Calais. X was making another cup of very sugary tea. Y, stirring the kindling, yelled as he accidentally grabbed a burning twig. ‘Are you trying to clean your fingerprints?’ laughed X.

Director

Country

Year

2014

Duration

10 mins

Let Us Persevere in What We Have Resolved Before We Forget

Director

Country

Year

2013

Primary Contact

Ben Russell

Duration

20 mins

Liquid Traces. The Left-to-Die Boat

Liquid Traces. The Left-to-Die Boat

Liquid Traces offers a synthesis of our reconstruction of the events of what is known as the ‘left-to-die boat’. 72 passengers who left the Libyan coast heading in the direction of the island of Lampedusa on board a small rubber boat were left to drift for 14 days in NATO’s maritime surveillance area. Despite several distress signals relaying their location, as well as repeated interactions, including at least one military helicopter visit and an encounter with a military ship, no action was taken. As a result, only 9 people survived.

Director

Country

Year

2011

Primary Contact

Lorenzo Pezzani

Duration

18 mins