Death is certain but not final [Performance] | Saeed Taji Farouky, Palestine, 52 min, 2023
Palestinian filmmaker and radical educator Saeed Taji Farouky will take participants through a non-academic, irreverent exploration of “absence” as an essential creative and political component of radical/experimental documentary filmmaking. Journeying through music, literature, dance, film, and architecture in Gaza and Burma, Saeed will examine how certainty, presence, and classification – requirements of capitalist, colonialist, industrial filmmaking – can be challenged and contradicted to devise new forms of cinema able to approach the seeming impossibility of representing genocide.