Larissa Sansour - Phantoms

Programme

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  In the Future They Ate from the Finest Porcelain (Larissa Sansour & Søren Lind, 2016, 28’)

  A narrative resistance group makes underground deposits of elaborate porcelain - suggested to belong to an entirely fictional civilisation. Their aim is to influence history and support future claims to their vanishing lands. Once unearthed, this tableware will prove the existence of this counterfeit people. By implementing a myth of its own, their work becomes a historical intervention - de facto creating a nation.

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  As If No Misfortune Had Occurred in the Night (Larissa Sansour & Søren Lind, 2022, 20’)

  A Palestinian mother mourns the loss of her daughter and the eternal succession of traumas passed on to future generations. Her song fuses Palestinian and European musical practices: Al Ouf Mash’al is an ever-evolving reflection of the Palestinian experience; its lyrics tell of disaster, exodus, and displacement. This is blended with an Arabic modification of Gustav Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder; an outpouring of sorrow after losing one’s child.

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  In vitro (Larissa Sansour & Søren Lind, 2019, 28’)

  Set in Bethlehem, decades after an ecological-disaster. The dying founder of a subterranean orchard engages in a dialogue with her young successor, who was born underground and has never seen the town she's destined to replant and repopulate. Starring Hiam Abbas.