NOOR ABED — OUR SONGS WERE READY FOR ALL WARS TO COME (film + talk)

Name: NOOR ABED — OUR SONGS WERE READY FOR ALL WARS TO COME (film + talk)
Start: 2024-10-11T20:30:00+02:00
End: 2024-10-11T22:00:00+02:00
Location: Auguste Ortsstraat 20 -28, 1000 Brussels, Belgium

Schedule

Fri Oct 11 2024 at 08:30 pm to 10:00 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

Auguste Ortsstraat 20 -28, 1000 Brussels, Belgium | Brussels, BU

our songs were ready for all wars to come (2021) is a 22-minute film of choreographed scenes based on documented folk tales from Palestine. It begins with four minutes of darkness and the haunting sound of a woman’s voice. The perforated edge of the film, occasionally silhouetted by flashes of light, highlights the nature of the work as a mediated document. 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.
This film explores the critical stance of ‘folklore’ as a source of knowledge and its possible connection to alternative social and representational models in Palestine.
How can folklore become a common emancipatory tool for people to overturn dominant discourses, reclaim their history and land, and rewrite reality as they know it?
Noor Abed (b. 1988, Palestine) works at the intersection of performance, media and film. Her artistic practice examines notions of choreography and the imaginary relationship of individuals, creating situations where social possibilities are rehearsed and performed.
+ talk moderated by Sorana Munsya
Part of Tashweesh festival (9 - 12 OCT)
EN https://beursschouwburg.be/en/events/tashweesh-24
FR https://beursschouwburg.be/fr/events/tashweesh-24
NL https://beursschouwburg.be/nl/events/tashweesh-24