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We Have Always Known the Wind’s Direction
Screening + Talk
7/11/19 7pm
Free
Artist Inas Halabi presents this film which probes the possible burial of nuclear waste in the South of the West Bank.
We Have Always Known the Wind’s Direction cycles between fragmented conversations with a nuclear physicist, interviews and expressive footage of landscapes. Our views of these landscapes are unsettled by what we hear. Halabi deliberately withholds and delays information, and the film comes to focus on issues of representation and how information is conveyed. The isotope Cesium 137, invisible but deadly, could be seen as a symbol for something also unseen – the networks of power and control in the region.
The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the artist.
11:49mins | 2019
Inas Halabi (b.1988, Palestine) uses video, sculpture and archival material to examine historical and political narratives of national identity, collective memory, myth-making and hierarchies of power. Her process is fundamentally research-based and she presents data and visual material, often with an interventionist component, in the form of installation.
Image: Inas Halabi, still from We Have Always Known the Wind’s Direction, 2019. High-definition video, color, sound. Courtesy of the artist.