upcoming: Thursday, April 10

The screening series 'Palestine Everywhere- Looking at Palestinian Migration through Concordia’s Film Collection' is born from a desire to activate the vast collection of film about Palestine present in the film collections house within Concordia University. These films are often used as teaching material in a variety of courses offered by the university, but they are seldom used in other contexts. This screening series aims at filling this gap by providing a larger audience for some of these films, in order to continue fostering discussions about Palestine at Concordia University. The themes of the screening series will revolve around various aspects of Palestinian migration: displacement, border-crossing, exile, diaspora. These are fundamental aspects of every Palestinian lived experience, and they have become particularly urgent after Israel’s attacks on Gaza and the West Bank after October 7. The screenings in this series are aimed at fostering discussion about the global Palestinian experience and the right for Palestinians to return and live freely in their homeland. Each screening will be introduced by an expert on core themes of the film, and they will also moderate the following discussion with help from the organizers.

6 PM EST at the EV building (EV 1.615)
Concordia University, 1515 Rue St Catherine

The Dream (Mohammad Malas, Syria, 1987), 45 min

Measures of Distance (Mona Hatoum, United Kingdom, 1988), 16 min

Ma'loul Celebrates its Destruction (Michel Khleifi, Palestine, Belgium, 1984), 32 min

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Facilitator: Nayrouz Abu Hatoum

Nayrouz Abu Hatoum is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology at Concordia University. She was the Ibrahim Abu-Lughod postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University for 2018/2019. Her research explores visual politics in Palestine and focuses on alternative imaginations, peoples' place-making and dwelling practices in contexts of settler-colonialism. Currently, she is working on her ethnographic project that examines the politics of visual arts and artist's role in expanding Palestinians' imagination. Abu Hatoum is a founding member of Insaniyyat - Society of Palestinian Anthropologists. In addition to English, she is fluent in Arabic and Hebrew.
Curator: Marco Meneghin
Marco Meneghin is a PhD student in Film Studies at Concordia University. He holds a BA in Spanish and Latin American Language, Literatures and Cultures from Ca' Foscari University in Venice (Italy), An MA in English Renaissance Literature from Ca' Foscari University in Venice (Italy), and an MA in Film Studies from University College London (UCL). His research investigates the making of visual sovereignty in the making of the 1981 Colombian film Nuestra Voz de Tierra, Memoria y Futuro, covering topics such as visual ethnography, photography and the revolutionary left, and indigenous activism. He has been the Co-Editor in Chief of Synoptique: An Online Journal of Film and Moving Image Studies (2020-2022), and is currently a film programmer at the International Ethnographic Film Festival of Qébec (FIFEQ).