Vibrations from Gaza + The Diary of a Sky

Nov 30 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm
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Location: Ada Slaight Hall in Daniels Spectrum | 585 Dundas Street East

The Diary of a Sky

Year: 2024
Genre: Experimental documentary
Country: Lebanon
Language: In Arabic with English Subtitles
Length: 45 m
Advisory: Thematics of militarised violence; continuous imagery and sounds of military weapons
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In 2020, as the pandemic brings the world to a silent standstill, artist Lawrence Abu Hamdan (winner of the prestigious Turner Prize in 2019) witnesses the sonic terrorism endured by those living alongside him in Beirut due to incessant airspace violations by Israeli fighter jets and drones. Hamdan’s 45-minute video essay plunges viewers into a chilling chronicle of daily life in Lebanon that has been irrevocably transformed by Israel’s terroristic weaponization of the sky.

Directed by

Lawrence Abu Hamdan is an independent investigator or “Private Ear” whose work focuses on sound and linguistics as well as the political effects of listening and audio.

Vibrations from Gaza

Year: 2024
Genre: Experimental documentary
Country: Palestine/Canada
Language: In American Sign Language with English subtitles
Length: 16 m
Advisory: Verbal descriptions and visual depictions of militarised violence; sustained drone sound
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VIBRATIONS FROM GAZA offers a glimpse into the experiences of Deaf children in the colonised and confined coastal territory of Gaza, Palestine. Born and raised under siege, these children – including Amani, Musa, Israa, and others – provide vivid accounts of their encounter of bombardment and the constant presence of drones in their sky.

Directed by

Rehab Nazzal is a Palestinian-born multidisciplinary artist based in Canada and Palestine whose video, photography, and sound works investigate the violence of settler colonialism. Nazzal’s work has been shown in Canada, Palestine, and internationally, including at Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art, CONTACT Photography Festival, Images Festival, A Space Gallery, Karsh-Masson Art Gallery, Toronto-Palestine Film Festival; Art Gallery of Mississauga.

Talkback

Speakers

Join us after these two films for a prerecorded talkback with filmmaker Serene Husni Alahmad and director Rehab Nazzal.

Speakers and panelists

Moderator

Serene Husni Alahmad is a filmmaker, writer, and educator. Her directorial debut ZINCO (2013) won the Audience Award for Best Short Documentary from the Franco-Arab Film Festival and her short NUS KILO MISH MISH (2022) won the Qayqub Award for “Best Canadian Short Film” from the Toronto Arab Film Festival.

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