Cinematic Counter-Archives of Palestine: Memory, Erasure, and Resistance

Film screening: A Night We Held Between (2024, 30min). Guest: Noor Abed. Open to the public, no registration or ticket needed.

Featuring A Night We Held Between (2024, Noor Abed), letter to a friend (2019, Emily Jacir), Electrical Gaza (2015, Rosalind Nashashibi), and There Was Nothing Here Before (2024, Yvann Yagchi), the screenings at eikones this fall will be followed by discussions with the filmmakers, foregrounding cinema as a space of memory, resistance, and reimagining.

Organized by: David Bucheli (eikones), Aïcha Revellat (eikones), Ute Holl (Media Studies), Falestin Naïli (Near and Middle Eastern Studies), Lorena Rizzo (African Studies), and Peter Burleigh (English Seminar).

With the generous support of eikones – Center for the Theory and History of the Image, Media Studies, swisspeace, African Studies, and Near and Middle Eastern Studies.