THE AFTERLIFE OF IMAGES: ORAIB TOUKAN
"Many struggles are hypervisible, and yet we still cannot see them, let alone hear their claims exactly as they are uttered. Why is it that we still cannot see what we’re actually seeing?”
Oraib Toukan explores the way we look at—or look away from—images of suffering. This program highlights two of Toukan’s films, each providing a testimony on violence, and on Palestine in different times and spaces, pointing to the complexities of adequately representing such violence.
OFFING. 2021. 28 min.
VIA DOLOROSA. 2021. 21 min.
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