STILL LIFE

2007 | 25 min | VOSTA

Country of origin of director : United States
Country of production : United States
Country of recording : Lebanon 

SYNOPSIS :

“The Arab governments pushed us out of our homes… I was twelve years old… I’ve been here for 60 years.” A beautiful, poignant documentary, Still Life examines the effects a collection of personal photos showing life in Palestine before the 1948 displacement have on an elderly Palestinian fisherman living in exile in Lebanon. It is a moving meditation on the role memory and photographs play in the lives of those in exile from their homes.

BIOGRAPHY : 

Diana Allan is an associate professor of anthropology at McGill University and a Canada Research Chair in the Anthropology of Living Archives. She is the author of Refugees of the Revolution: Experiences of Palestinian Exile (2014) and editor of Voices of the Nakba: A Living History of Palestine (2021). She is the co-founder of the Nakba Archive and co-directs the Critical Media Lab at McGill. Her films include Still Life (2007), Terrace of the Sea (2010), and So Dear, So Lovely (2018).