Imagining Liberation
Film director Dalia AlKury will run a screening of her experiments in imagining a Free and liberated Palestine, as part of her PhD research at the Norwegian Film School. The screening will be followed by a workshop with a collective meditation for the audience to dream and imagine their own version of liberation and justice.
With: Dalia AlKury
(Arrangementet er på engelsk)
Imagining Liberation is Al Kury’s base to investigate film methodologies in the cross between fiction and documentary. My interest in staging simulated past, to staging speculation on futures, comes from a deep frustration with the lack of films imagining a place where the victims of wars today actually truimph. Both practices – staging in documentary and Speculative fiction – are deeply rooted in pausing the question «what if» to offer another possible world or narratives. Al Kury’s work will be combining these schools and finding her own voice. She’s interested in using the documentary approach not as a way of documenting a reality, but a way of commanding reality through active and radical imagining of justice and accountability.
To do that, Al-Kury’s been working on creating scenes that imagine a main character’s confrontation with a free and liberated Palestine. She refers to the scenes as vignetters or tableaux as they are not connected by one plot but are rather subplots exploring a meta narrative. These vignettes will stand as Al-Kury’s final delivery, and they will allow her to investigate the aesthetics of «futuring» reality using critical self-fabulations. It will also explore the ethics of representation in shifting power dynamics between oppressed and oppressor. By refering to her visual work, she will be able to clarify what is staged, what is subverted, what is decolonized and what is needed to create a type of catharsis and dignity in this type of visionary work.
About:
DALIA AL-KURY is an acclaimed film director whose work navigates cross-genre storytelling. Her films explore the resilience and political unconscious of the everyday hero in the Arab World. In addition to her rich practical experience, Dalia is well-grounded in academic study; she holds an MA from Goldsmiths, University of London, and is currently a PhD candidate at the Norwegian Film School.
The event is part of Motforestillinger på HUMAN 24: I LOVE GAZA–program, and is organized in collaboration with Vega Scene and HUMAN International Documentary Filmfestival 4.–10. mars 2024.
Supported by Fritt Ord and Kulturrådet.
Motforestillinger har samarbeidet med HUMAN internasjonale dokumentarfilmfestival og Vega Scene om Palestina-program siden 2019.
I 2024 rettes fokus mot Gaza, med et nært blikk på kunstens betydning under et pågående folkemord.