Noor Abed in conversation with curator, art historian and educator Tina Sherwell around her film practice and her relationship to mythology, landscape, history and the archive.

The conversation followrf a special screening of Noor Abed’s trilogy of films Penelope (2014), our songs were ready for all wars to come (2021), and A Night We Held Between (2024).

Made over the course of ten years, the three films combine mythology and folklore to imagine new possibilities for the representation and enactment of social formations in Palestine. Together the films can be seen as a historical document from an unknown archive, retrieving a collective memory while connecting us to an imaginary yet to unfold. Working with folk tales, folk songs, and the choreographing of daily movement; the films reclaim an interrupted proximity to the land, to lost rituals, and to the invisible knowledge embedded in the peripheral.

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