Up Coming & Past Events
P21 Gallery, London
The Void project, The Found Archive of Hani Jawherieh, traces mainly, the personal archive of Hani Jawherieh, which survived the Israeli invasion and looting, and has been rescued, by Hind, Jawharieh’s partner, and hidden until today.
To be able to access, past Palestinian archive, and especially an archive, of a man who was a manufacturing a Palestinian image, is a luxury Palestinian artists are not used to. What does it mean to assemble, rename, gaze and appropriate, a past visual Palestinian narrative, are all questions, which Azza El Hassan, attempts to deal with through The Void Project, The Found Archive of Hani Jawherieh.
ICA, London
Part of Archive Fever, The Void Project and London Palestine Film Festival, have restored two films The Road to Palestine (1985) by Layaly Bader and The Upper Gate (1991) Arab Lutfi.
P21, London
“Archive fever” is the term Professor Beshara Doumani has given to the Palestinian obsession with locating and preserving historic resources. This fixation, triggered by the 1948 uprooting of the Palestinian people from their homeland, has been driven by the state of Israel’s abduction of Palestinian historical material, which continues today. To discuss this “fever” and the urgency to locate and preserve Palestinian archives, The Void Project and the London Palestine Film Festival co-present, Archiving Palestine. This event presents a panel of academics and filmmakers to discuss various individual and institutional efforts towards a formalized Palestinian audiovisual archive. The absence of a safe and secure homeland in which Palestinians can store and accumulate an archive, poses a serious issue when attempting to collect archive. The panelists will address the national threats and security issues that put endanger the efforts towards a national archive. They will also focus on the current role of digital media in offering solutions to today’s Palestinian dilemma.
This panel will be preceded by a screening of Yom Al Ard (15’), a film by Monica Maurer composed of recently restored and digitised rare footage shot in the Galilee (Nazareth, Deir Hanna, and Sakhnin) in celebration of 5th Land Day Anniversary in March 1981.
The panel will be chaired by filmmaker and founder of The Void Project, Azza El-Hassan.
Panelists
Monica Maurer, filmmaker
Dr Bashar Shammout, audio-archivist
Dr Lena Al Jioyyusi, academic
Mohammad AlAtar, filmmaker
This event is co-produced and co-presented with The Void Project.
23 June 2019, The Hague, Netherland. Panel Discussion.
Dec 2018 ICA, London, Britain. Screening
24 Oct 2018, Harvard University, Boston US. Screening.
30 Nov 2018, Glasgow, Scotland. Screening
11th June 2018, Sheffield, England.