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IMAGINING LIBERATION (2024)

Dalia Al Kury
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Imagining Liberation is an artistic research project with the aim of investigating methods in speculative nonfiction. This project begins with a question: What kind of cinematic images can arise from imagining a liberated Palestine? Dalia AlKury’s interest in staging simulated pasts in her earlier documentaries and then staging speculations of futures during her PhD research stems from a deep frustration with the lack of art imagining a world that she hopes is possible. Both practices—staging in documentary and speculative fiction—are rooted in posing the question “What if?,” to offer another possible world or narrative. Her work combines these approaches in the realization of her own method in speculative multitemporal nonfiction. Dalia AlKury approaches documentary filmmaking not as a way of documenting reality, but as a way of constructing an alternative one. Her final artistic results are informed by a long legacy of politically poetic Palestinian aesthetics and by grievances over the historical and present day witnessing of the violent ethnic cleansing of her people. By committing to framing her vignettes in a fictional liberated Palestine, an emancipatory art making process starts to take shape. The process excavates an often-oppressed critical rage and pushes it up to the surface through different narrative tools. Imagining Liberation traces the filmmaker's confrontational journey while experimenting with staging, subverting, futuring, abstracting, and decolonizing to reach a type of catharsis in the face of a continuously fragmented diasporic existence. By staging her own return to a liberated Palestine in different modes from writing to filming, Dalia AlKury runs into ethical dilemmas questioning her self-censorship, representation of “others” and the elusive role of cinematic catharsis. This book encompasses her critical reflection on the short films , narrative experiments and video diaries created throughout her research. The three main audio-visual works that will be shared and analyzed are Congratulations on Your Return, Levitations, and What if a Tree, What if a Crow?
typeresearch exposition
keywordsrepresentation, cinema, diaspora, futurism
date18/04/2024
published10/09/2024
last modified10/09/2024
statuspublished
share statusprivate
affiliationDNF
copyrightDalia AlKury
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
languageEnglish
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/2194175/2729160
published inUniversity of Inland Norway
portal issue5. Ph.d. in Artistic Research - 2024


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2194253 shams sleeps with trees dalia alkury Public domain
2694781 tafa7 el keyl Dalia AlKury All rights reserved
2714538 sarhat Dalia AlKury All rights reserved
2718622 there comes a day - SD 480p Dalia AlKury All rights reserved
2718650 giddo (720p) Dalia AlKury All rights reserved
2718762 moodboard (1080p) Dalia AlKury All rights reserved
2718827 Conversation w Dir.Elia Suleiman (8 min) 2023 Dalia AlKury All rights reserved
2718860 AUDIO-2023-03-28-08-32-55 Dalia AlKury All rights reserved
2719570 Dalia_v4_web_spreads cover dalia alkury All rights reserved
2719586 240410_Sarhat_Picture-Lock_ONLINE_Vimeo Dalia AlKury All rights reserved
2719654 What if a tree falls 24.04.12 Dalia AlKury All rights reserved
2719818 Congrats on your return- 240412.Jan.25.2024 Dalia AlKury All rights reserved
2720001 Video_Of_WE_NEVER_LEFT_Set DALIA ALKURY All rights reserved
2720009 Thuria healing 240412-Opening scene_221019 Dalia AlKury All rights reserved
2729344 Elia Dalia AlKury All rights reserved
2729404 Annemarie Jacir Dalia Alkury All rights reserved
2729758 Rehearsing Justice Dalia Alkury All rights reserved
2729798 inn_logo_eng_sidestilt_svart_pms HINN All rights reserved
2730564 Imagine Liberation – with QR codes Dalia AlKury All rights reserved
2730807 Angie D.AlKury All rights reserved
2731775 Chiara D.alkury All rights reserved
2731794 what if a tree D.alkury All rights reserved
2731810 levitations palms D.alkury All rights reserved
2731970 WSVV4550 D.Alkury All rights reserved
2735979 Healing Thuria 240415 D.alkury All rights reserved
2736009 Healing Thuria 240415 D.ALKURY All rights reserved
2736027 majnooneh D.alkury All rights reserved
2738344 Dalia text DaliaAlKury All rights reserved

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