Origin: Palestine | Fiction | Director: Larissa Sansour | 9 minutes

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Sbara

Larissa Sansour 2008 Fiction 9 min.

Heavily referencing the 1980 cult classic The Shining by Stanley Kubrick,
the video piece SBARA explores the castigation of Arabs in contemporary
Western dialogue. By adding an audio montage combining historical and
current quotes on the Middle East to footage paraphrasing scenes from the
original film, SBARA seeks to expose the cyclical nature of Middle Eastern
rhetoric and policies and emphasize the psychological terror inflicted upon
those at the receiving end of this repetitively stagnant political
discourse. Sansour is a Denmarkbased Palestinian video artist whose work
has been exhibited internationally to much acclaim in recent years.

Full feature: https://vimeo.com/25157792

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