Permanent Temporariness: Film Program
NYUAD Art Gallery

I was invited to present a series of short films at NYUAD Art Gallery as part of its exhibition Permanent Temporariness: Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti, curated by Salwa Mikdadi and Bana Kattan. 

Irregulars (Fabio Palmieri, 2015, 9 min)
Against a tellingly hypnotic factory backdrop, a refugee encapsulates the global immigration crisis in his own wrenching words. Each year, thousands of people try to enter other countries. They flee from war, persecution and poverty. 

Measures of Uncertainty (Jawad Al Malhi, 4.28 min)
Measures of Uncertaintywas shot in Shufhat Refugee Camp, in occupied East Jerusalem. The camp has a population of over 100,000 people and is situated less than 5km from the walls of the old city of Jerusalem. Filmmaker Al Malhi has himself grown up in the camp and has continually tasked himself with creating representations of the everyday life of his community through photography, video, painting and sculpture.

District of the Post Office (Rosalind Nashashibi, 2002, 7 min)
One slow, hot afternoon, a neighbourhood built to be a utopian suburb for employees of the Palestinian Post Office now becomes a lawless no-man’s-land between occupied East Jerusalem and Ramallah.

Introduction to the End of an Argument (Jayce Solloum and Elia Suleiman, 1990, 45 min)
With a combination of film, documentary, news coverage and excerpts of "live" footage shot in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Introduction to the End of an Argument explores representations of the Middle East, Arab culture and the Palestinian people by the West. 

 Screened on May 23 in the Screening Room at the NYUAD Arts Center. Read more here.