Your Father Was Born 100 Years Old, and So Was the Nakba

A Palestinian grandmother returns to her hometown Haifa through Google Streetview, today, the only way she can see Palestine. In this experimental short film, filmmaker Razan AlSalah channels glitch aesthetics and digital erasure in a subversion of the physical borders and checkpoints imposed by the Israeli occupation.

Directed by

Razan AlSalah

2018 | 7 min | Arab (st. English)

Filmmaker’s country : Palestine
Country of filming : Palestine, Canada

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.