Talking about it is also resistance

A program of films curated by the collective Regards Palestiniens, co-presented with Cinéma Public, with the support of Periculum. Fondation of Contemporary Art and the Feminist Media Studio. The screening will be followed by a discussion between Jayce Salloum, Jason Fox, and Dyala Hamzah.

“talking about it is also resistance” explores the interview as form, examining how it shapes the conditions of speech. By making the interview strange in three distinct ways, these films break away from dominant narratives and fixed storytelling structures, creating space for unexpected turns in conversation and encounter. AlZubaidi, Hopinka, and Salloum disrupt interview conventions, challenging the unequal power relations between image, expert, and the preset scripts and framings that often circumscribe interview techniques. Their films invite us to rethink authority, representation, and storytelling. As method, the interview explores the interplay of politics, aesthetics and social relations, while positioning image and sound both as a vessel of the experiential and site of encounters.

FAR AWAY FROM THE HOMELAND

Kais AlZubaidi / 1969 / 11 min

UNTITLED PART 3B: (AS IF) BEAUTY NEVER ENDS

Jayce Salloum / 2000 (2002) / 11 min

DISLOCATION BLUES

Sky Hopinka / 2017 / 17 min

UNTITLED PART 1: EVERYTHING AND NOTHING

Jayce Salloum / 1999 (2001) / 40 min

This film screening and public discussion is the closing event of a two-day workshop with Syrian-Lebanese-Canadian artist and filmmaker Jayce Salloum. “forms of resistance/ love is the deepest” is a collaboration between its initiators—Farah Atoui, Razan Al Salah, and Cynthia Kreichati—artist Jayce Salloum, Cinema Public, the collective Regards Palestiniens, and the cultural non-profit Dar Filastin–Maison Palestine. It examines how diverse creative practices—artistic, discursive, and curatorial—grapple with the challenges of expression and representation in contexts of profound violence and resistance. Through a critical and experimental lens, the workshop engages with the potential of form (visual, sonic, textual, relational) as a means for addressing the unspeakable and the unrepresentable in times of crisis. One of the aims of this workshop is also to build cultural coalitions around Palestine, bringing community organizations together with cultural workers, academics, artists, and practitioners. This project is possible thanks to the support of Periculum. Fondation of Contemporary Art and the Feminist Media Studio.