TRADING THE FUTURE & DEIR YASSIN REMEMBERED

Sunday
Apr 25
01:00 pm

Live-stream discussion and book-launch featuring b. h. Yael, Michael Hoolboom, Richard Fung, Dalia Kandiyoti, and Robert Massoud / By registration through Eventbrite / Accompanied by a screening of three of b.h. Yael's short films / Co-presented with ConverSalon, Another Story Bookshop, and OCAD University.

TRADING THE FUTURE

B.H. Yael / Canada / 2008 / 59 ' / English

In Production

A video essay that questions the inevitability of apocalypse and its repercussions on environmental urgencies.

Synopsis

Starting with a personal memory, the fear of the rapture, the video addresses the Christian narrative for the end of times, and draws connections to secular apocalypticism and our ready acceptance of a cataclysmic end.

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DEIR YASSIN REMEMBERED

B.H. Yael / Canada - Palestinian Territory / 2006 / 28 ' / English - Hebrew - Arabic

In Production

DEIR YASSIN REMEMBERED considers the repercussions of a largely forgotten massacre of almost 100 Palestinians in 1948.

Synopsis

The massacre at Deir Yassin was pivotal to Palestinian dispossession. Though Deir Yassin has been partially acknowledged by Israelis, many other massacres of the time have not.

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FRESH BLOOD, A CONSIDERATION OF BELONGING

B.H. Yael / Canada / 1996 / 55 ' / English - Arabic

In Production

A hybrid and personal video-essay that explores the dichotomies of Arab-Jewish identities, from Iraq to Palestine.

Synopsis

FRESH BLOOD, A CONSIDERATION OF BELONGING is a hybrid documentary or video essay which includes questions around Arab Jewishness, negotiating Palestine, gender, belly-dancing and memory.

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