Man number 4

Gaza, December 2023. A confrontation with a disturbing photograph on social media triggers questions about what it means to be an onlooker.

Directed by

Miranda Pennell

2024 | 10 min | English

Filmmaker’s country : United Kingdom
Country of filming : Palestine, United Kingdom

Co-curated with Regards Palestiniens.

*The session will be followed by a discussion with:

Nada El-Omari, a filmmaker and writer of Palestinian and Egyptian origin based in Montreal, Quebec. Her practice and research focus on the intergenerational transmission of memory, displacement, and stories of belonging and identity, which she explores through a poetic and hybrid lens.

Muhammad Nour El Khairy, a Palestinian filmmaker, videographer, film programmer, and editor originally from Jordan, currently based in Tio’tia:ke (Montreal). His work is driven by an understanding of moving images as complex living systems, whose political reach goes beyond representational capacity to include their funding, production, and distribution.

Moderated by Nayrouz Abu Hatoum, a professor in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at Concordia University. She is currently working on an ethnographic project examining the politics of visual arts and the role of artists in expanding Palestinian imagination. Nayrouz Abu Hatoum is a founding member of Insaniyyat, the society of Palestinian anthropologists.

Thursday, May 8

7:30 pm | Cinéma Public

7 pm Audience welcome
7:30 pm Screening begins

505 Jean-Talon St. E.
Montréal, QC
H2R 1T6

Free admission, subject to availability

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