Contact information
Name:
Nandini Sikand
Phone:
610-330-3049
Email:
sikandn@lafayette.edu
When:
Wednesday, February 28, 2024 - 7:00pm - 9:30pm
Where:
Landis Cinema - Buck Hall - 219 N. 3rd Street
Presenter:
Nandini Sikand & Drew Swedberg
Price:
Free
Stitching Palestine (Carol Mansour, 2017)
Twelve Palestinian women talk of their lives before the Diaspora, their memories, and their identity, interconnected by the ancient art and Palestinian cultural tradition of embroidery. Resilient and determined, the women are lawyers, artists, writers, housewives, activists, architects, and politicians who seek to stitch together the story of their homeland, their dispossession, and their unwavering strives towards justice. Delicate and well-paced yet detailed, playful, and methodical in her mobilization of the interview format, award-winning Canadian/Lebanese-Palestinian filmmaker Carol Mansour engineers a multi-perspective tableau of what it means to be proud, Palestinian, and woman.
Twelve Palestinian women talk of their lives before the Diaspora, their memories, and their identity, interconnected by the ancient art and Palestinian cultural tradition of embroidery. Resilient and determined, the women are lawyers, artists, writers, housewives, activists, architects, and politicians who seek to stitch together the story of their homeland, their dispossession, and their unwavering strives towards justice. Delicate and well-paced yet detailed, playful, and methodical in her mobilization of the interview format, award-winning Canadian/Lebanese-Palestinian filmmaker Carol Mansour engineers a multi-perspective tableau of what it means to be proud, Palestinian, and woman.
Preceded by short film, our songs were ready for all wars to come (Noor Abed)
The film explores the critical stance of ‘folklore’ as a source of knowledge and its possible connection to alternative social and representational models in Palestine. Images of women performing draw connections between latent stories of water wells and communal rituals associated with disappearance, mourning and death. The only narration in the film is a song, which is sung by Palestinian singer Maya Khaldi. Its lyrics are a collage of different folk tales.
Co-sponsored by: Africana Studies, Asian Studies, Anthropology & Sociology, Middle East Studies Association, Pards for Palestine, Lafayette College Libraries
Sponsored by:
Film and Media Studies