A Tree That Raised You

Bar opens @5:00PM

Doors @5:30PM

Screening @6:00PM

About Facilitator:

Hana is a Palestinian-American filmmaker whose practice weaves together the threads of archive, memory, image and sound into a narrative that can speak to our lives, our sense of home. She recently directed the award winning film Where the Wind Blows, and is currently directing her first feature documentary. She is a former fellow at Democracy Now! And is currently a UFO short film lab fellow.

https://hanaelias.cargo.site/

Objective:

I am currently working on an archival heavy documentary that incorporates three generations of my family filming various returns to Palestine. As I think through this film I want to experiment with narrative building as a collective process.

Bringing together disparate elements of our sense of place and home as we think about our creative process. How do we tie together seemingly isolated elements of life to synthesize a story? Film collage is an idea that speaks to this, so the workshop comes together as a film screening followed by actual collage making.

In this workshop we ask participants to bring an object from their archive; it could be a photo, a poem, a text message, or a twig. We think of this archival object alongside relationships to nature using the three guided questions:

“what is a tree that raised you”

“if you could ask the soil a question what would it be”

“what are the roots of your resistance”.

Participants work through this by creating a collage board using their object and these questions as guidance.By the end of the workshop participants have the roots or seed of an idea to expand in their creative practice.

What’s Included:

• Watch two short diaristic films one is Hana’s short “where the wind blows” and excerpt from Mohammad Malas’s “Al Manam” and a third short personal film to be curated by the director.
• Trailer from my feature film If These Stones Could Talk and my short film. Not sure yet!
• Materials for collage: thread, magazine, images glue, scissors, boards

What to Bring:

• Personal memento (archival object)
• Notebook, pen