PAINTING AND SINGING PASTS AND PRESENTS : A TRIBUTE TO DIANA ALLAN’S ETHNOGRAPHIC CINEMA

TERRACE OF THE SEA

By : DIANA ALLAN

2010 | 52 min | VOSTA 
Country of origin of director : United States
Country of production : United States
Country of recording : Lebanon
SYNOPSIS :

Filmed in an unofficial Palestinian Bedouin camp established in 1948 on a stretch of beach north of Tyre, in South Lebanon, Terrace of the Sea uses a collection of family photographs taken over three generations as a prism through which to reflect on memory, loss and history.

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).

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Saturday May 6th, From 5:45pm

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