Partition

Partition fuses archival footage from the British occupation of Palestine with audio recorded of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, tracing lines of continuity left by seismic displacement. Silent films gathered in imperial collections hold histories that have barely been told, and ways of colonial seeing that seep into the present; Partition uses dialectical montage and asynchronous sound to examine both. Recovering Palestinian presence through story, voice and song, unraveling colonial pasts through soundscapes of the precarious present, Partition is a meditation on what bodies remember and empires forget.

The film will be followed by a discussion between Diana Allan and filmmaker Ghassan Salhab, moderated by Alice Leroy, researcher in visual and film studies and critic at Cahiers du cinéma.
Diana Allan is one of the guests of the Festival conversations.