Rosalind Nashashibi Retrospective
+Artist Retrospective
Sunday, 9/29
11:00 a.m.
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Collected Shorts by Rosalind Nashashibi
5 shorts | 71 mins total
Stills courtesy of Rosalind Nashashibi and LUX, London
A selection of five beautiful experimental films from Palestinian English artist Rosalind Nashashibi. Described as having “the depth and precision of a poet. Her images, and the ideas they carry, continue to blossom in the mind long after these short but luxuriously slow-moving films have spooled to their end” (Laura Cumming of The Guardian). Working primarily in 16mm and 35mm, her films convey inner experiences of moments and events, often considering the politics of relations in the community and the extended family; while merging everyday observations with fictional or mythological elements. This selection includes early works through her recent work from 2018.
Part One: Where There Is a Joyous Mood, There a Comrade Will Appear to Share a Glass of Wine
Rosalind Nashashibi
Short
24 mins | 2018
UK
Inspired by Ursula Le Guin’s The Shobies’ Story, the film plays with new and more liberating types of family structures—communal experiences made possible by letting go of adherence to linear time. Weaving various intimate settings, some within shared domestic spaces, others in outdoor environments, the film features the artist and her children, as well as close friends, which she considers extended family, and is shot in Lithuania, London, and Edinburgh.
Electrical Gaza
Rosalind Nashashibi
Short
18 mins | 2015
Palestine
Nashashibi combines animated scenes with her footage of Gaza and the fixer, drivers, and translator who accompanied her there. She presents Gaza as a place from myth; isolated, suspended in time, difficult to access and highly charged.
This Quality
Rosalind Nashashibi
Short
5 mins | 2010
16mm
Egypt
Shot in downtown Cairo, This Quality comprises two halves: the first shows a woman looking directly at the camera. Her eyes have the appearance of being painted on, suggesting the blindness of a mythological seer. The second half shows a series of parked fabric-covered cars. The fabric cloaking each machine turns it into a sightless face, but also hoods the car, like a child covering their eyes.
Hreash House
Rosalind Nashashibi
Short
20 mins | 2004
Palestine
One family as an entire community, Hreash House shows an extended Palestinian family living a collective existence in a concrete block in Nazareth. It shows a feast and its aftermath during Ramadan.
The State of Things
Rosalind Nashashibi
Short
4 mins | 2000
UK
A Glasgow jumble sale set to a 1920’s Egyptian love song by Umm Kulthum. The viewer is left to grope around and try to locate what they are watching. The time and setting of the film become slippery, questioning the simplistic, unspecific, and convenient conceptions of “East” and “West.”
Rosalind Nashashibi is a London-based Palestinian English filmmaker and painter. Much of her work consists of everyday life in urban environments. Nashashibi works mainly with film, but occasionally ventures into the realm of photography and photographic installations. In 2003, Nashashibi won the Beck’s Futures prize, the first woman to do so, for The State of Things. In 2017, she was nominated for the Turner Prize. Her work is held in the collection of the Tate.
