DARC is proud to present “(re)collections of imagination,” a screening and artist talk featuring Palestinian – Egyptian filmmaker Nada El-Omari.
Constantly exploring new ways of self-narration, the Montreal-based artist will present and discuss her recent experimental short films, which are deeply informed by intergenerational memories, displacement and belonging.
Don’t miss this opportunity to experience Nada’s inventive and exploratory filmmaking.
About the talk:
Mona Hatoum said “people often expect tidy definitions of otherness, as if identity is something fixed and easily definable”. Solidarity begins in the silences, in the stories, in fragments that make a whole. Solidarity resides in what is shared, passed through and down and what is heard and collected alongside. How do we honour the stories we are gifted and we carry ? How do we participate in the multiples ? How do we continue to collectively imagine freedom ? And how do we narrate the truths that are refused?
About Nada El-Omari
Nada El-Omari is a filmmaker and writer of Palestinian and Egyptian origin based in Montreal, Quebec. Her practice and research interests centre on the intergenerational transmissions of memories, displacement, and the stories of belonging and identity which she explores through a poetic, hybrid lens. Focusing on process and fragments in text, sound, and image, Nada explores new ways to self-narrate, and speak hybridity and self. El-Omari holds a BFA in Film Production and an MFA in Film from York University.
Featured films:
from where to where من وين لوين d’où vers où, 8:02, experimental, 2021.
in the jasmine vines, 30:37, experimental, 2021.
Yaffa, 7:38, experimental, 2019.
DARC’s Microcinema programming is always FREE, donations are welcome.
