Origin: Denmark | Palestine | Fiction | Director: Larissa Sansour | 5 minutes

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A Space Exodus

Larissa Sansour 2008 fiction 5 min.

A Space Exodus quirkily sets up an adapted stretch of Stanley Kubrick's
Space Odyssey in a Middle Eastern political context. The recognizable music
scores of the 1968 science fiction film are changed to arabesque chords
matching the surreal visuals of Sansour's film. The film follows the
director herself onto a phantasmagorical journey through the universe
echoing Stanley Kubrick's thematic concerns for human evolution, progress
and technology. However, in her film, Sansour posits the idea of a first
Palestinian into space, and, referencing Armstrong's moon landing, she
interprets this theoretical gesture as "a small step for a Palestinian, a
giant leap for mankind". The film offers a naively hopeful and optimistic
vision for a Palestinian future contrasting sharply with all the elements
that are currently eating away at the very idea of a viable Palestinian
state.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1YhTUtC6SI

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