An Evening With Larissa Sansour
Sat 12/14/2024 • 7:30PM PST
Billy Wilder Theater
In-person:
filmmaker Larissa Sansour; author and UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television Distinguished Professor Chon Noriega.
Admission is free. No advance reservations. Your seat will be assigned to you when you pick up your ticket at the box office. Seats are assigned on a first come, first served basis. The box office opens one hour before the event.
Born in East Jerusalem, Palestine, and currently based in London, interdisciplinary artist Larissa Sansour creates works that examine the collective memory and trauma of the Palestinian people through allegorical and experimental science fiction films. Sansour works closely with her partner, Danish filmmaker and writer Søren Lind, co-directing and writing most of their films. Their works can be comical and/or dark, but always speak to the current political climate and push against unquestioned mainstream narratives. Our closing night screening includes the three films in Sansour’s science fiction trilogy — A Space Exodus (2009), Nation Estate (2013) and In the Future They Ate From the Finest Porcelain (2015) — along with her follow-up science fiction film In Vitro (2019). Though varied in aesthetic and approach, the films relate to one another in their examination of inherited history and identity, trauma and resistance.
Notes by Nicole Ucedo