Events

Moderated by scholar and curator Róisín Tapponi, this discussion pairs filmmakers Sarah Francis and Mona Benyamin, who both use experimental style and science-fiction tropes to examine the experience of diaspora. In Francis’s “As Above, So Below,” a group of people roam a barren landscape, tracked by the constant presence of a moon-like shape, which the film uses as metaphor to consider how Earth’s moon, once symbolizing cyclical time and new beginnings, has been transformed into an object to conquer and colonize. In Benyamin’s “Moonscape,” the filmmaker uses song and image to make connections between the commodification of the moon, and space in general, and the experience of Palestinian displacement and the ongoing occupation.