Time-Space: Silent Protest (Mahasen Nasser-Eldin), Nation Estate (Larissa Sansour), and Canada Park (Razan AlSalah) with Q&A with Mahasen
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Date: Friday, May 24th
Time: 3:30pm Silent Protest المظاهرة الصامتة
On 26 October 1929, Palestinian women launched their women’s movement in Jerusalem. Approximately 300 women converged into the city from all over Palestine. They held a silent demonstration through a car convoy across the city in protest at the British High Commissioner’s bias against Arabs in the Buraq uprising. This is their story on that day.
Genre: Documentary, Historical, Archives
Year of Release: 2019
Original Language(s): Arabic
Nation Estate
In Sansour’s sci-fi short, Palestinians have their state in the form of a single skyscraper: the Nation Estate. One colossal high-rise houses the entire Palestinian population –now finally living the high life. With a glossy mixture of computer-generated imagery, live actors and an arabesque electronic soundtrack; Nation Estate explores a vertical solution to Palestinian statehood. Each city has its own floor: Jerusalem on the third floor, Ramallah on the fourth floor, Sansour’s native Bethlehem on the fifth and so on. Intercity trips previously marred by checkpoints are now made by elevator. The story follows the female lead in a futuristic folklore suit returning home from a trip abroad and making her way through the lobby of the monstrous building – sponsored and sanctioned by the international community.
Genre: Short, Science-Fiction, Dystopian
Year of Release: 2013
Original Languages: Arabic, English 
Canada Park حديقة كندا
“I walk on snow to fall unto the desert. I find myself on unceded indigenous territory in so called Canada, an exile unable to return to Palestine. I trespass the colonial border as a digital spectre floating through Ayalon-Canada Park, transplanted over three Palestinian villages razed by the Israeli Occupation Forces in 1967.”
About the filmmakers:
Mahasen Nasser-Eldin is a Jerusalem born Director. Her films tell stories of resistance and resilience in pre and post-Nakba Palestine. Mahasen Nasser Eldin’s documentaries immerse us in the world of female characters forgotten by/from history. She tells stories of resistance and resilience, crafting tales that illuminate forgotten characters or those on the margins of society. Her spirit and passion for research got her interested in audiovisual archives, through which she creates new historical stories and explores how they can influence the construction of different historical narratives.
Larissa Sansour was born in East Jerusalem and studied Fine Art in Copenhagen, London and New York. Her work is interdisciplinary and uses film, photography, installation and sculpture. Larissa borrows heavily from the language of film and pop culture. By approximating the nature, reality and complexity of life in Palestine and the Middle East to visual forms normally associated with entertainment and televised pastime, her grandiose and often humorous schemes clash with the gravity expected from works commenting on the region.
Razan AlSalah Razan is a Palestinian artist and teacher based in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. Her films work with the material aesthetics of appearance and disappearance of indigenous bodies, narratives and histories in colonial image worlds. She often works with sound-images to infiltrate borders that have severed us from the land. Her films are both ghostly trespasses, and seeping ruptures, of the colonial image, that functions as a border, as a wall.