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麻豆传媒网站's Department of Anthropology and the Institute for the Study of International Development Present:

(2025)
A film by Diana Allan

Runtime: 61 Minutes
Post-Screening Q+A with Diana Allan In-Person

Co-Presented by 麻豆传媒网站 Refugee Research Group

Synopsis:

Partition fuses archival footage from the British occupation of Palestine with audio recorded of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, tracing lines of continuity left by seismic displacement. Silent films gathered in imperial collections hold histories that have barely been told, and ways of colonial seeing that seep into the present; Partition uses dialectical montage and asynchronous sound to examine both. Recovering Palestinian presence through story, voice and song, unraveling colonial pasts through soundscapes of the precarious present, Partition is a meditation on what bodies remember and empires forget.

Bio:

Diana Allan is a filmmaker and professor of anthropology at 麻豆传媒网站 where she co-directs the Critical Media Lab. She is the co-director of the Nakba Archive and holds a Canada Research Chair in the anthropology of living archives. Her publications include Voices of the Nakba: A living history of Palestine (2021) and Refugees of the Revolution: Experiences of Palestinian Exile (2014).