Admission: Pay-what-you-can — All proceeds support Amani, one of the children featured in Vibrations from Gaza, and her family in Gaza.

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To mark the final stop of the North American tour of Driving in Palestine by Rehab Nazzal, now on view at The People’s Forum in New York City, SAW is pleased to present a screening and talk with the artist on Sunday, October 5 at 7PM at Club SAW. The evening will also include the launch of Soumoud in Dark Times, a limited-edition publication by the artist, published by Monolith Editions (New York City).

Program

Vibrations from Gaza

Rehab Nazzal

16 min., 2023

Vibrations from Gaza offers a glimpse into the experiences of Deaf children in the colonized and confined coastal territory of Gaza, Palestine. Born and raised under Israeli siege and frequent onslaughts, these children — including Amani, Musa, Israa and others — provide vivid accounts of bombardments and the constant presence of drones in their sky. They describe their perceptions of missile strikes through vibrations in the air, trembling of the ground and the resonance of collapsing buildings. The film also examines the impact of sonic weapons on their hearing health, raising a fundamental question of justice and human rights.

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Canada Park

Rehab Nazzal

11:50 min., 2015

Canada Park uncovers the ethnic cleansing of three Palestinian villages in the West Bank — Yalu, Imwas, and Beit Nuba — systematically destroyed during the 1967 Israeli military occupation. Through archival records, survivor testimonies and direct images, the work traces the forced expulsion of 10,000 Palestinians, the expropriation of their land, and the erasure of homes, orchards, cemeteries and places of worship. In the late 1970s, a recreational site named “Canada Park” was built over the ruins, funded by the Jewish National Fund of Canada and reserved for Israeli use. This leisure park conceals the settler-colonial crimes committed against the Indigenous Palestinian people and their land, while exposing Canada’s complicity. To this day, the displaced inhabitants of Yalu, Imwas and Beit Nuba remain refugees, denied the right to return and rebuild their homes.

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Following the screening, Rehab Nazzal will give a talk on her practice, the featured works and the broader context of her work on Palestine.

The films will be presented with English subtitles, and the talk will be in English.