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At Noucmasالنظرة الاستعمارية
THE COLONIAL FILM GAZE & PALESTINIAN COUNTERNARRATIVES
Presentation & Discussion
|by Theo Panagopoulos
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Saturday, Nov 09
19:00
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Free admission [limited space]
Synopsis
The Colonial Film Gaze and Palestinian Counternarratives
Prompted by the recent discovery of a 1930s colonial film archive, Greek-Palestinian filmmaker Theo Panagopoulos investigates the role of film in creating a skewed biblical vision of pre-Nakba Palestine and the legacies of this today. Exploring how colonial powers have both appropriated and erased Palestinian archives, Panagopoulos examines how Palestinians are now repurposing colonial narratives through creative responses, including those developed in workshops with the Palestinian diaspora in Athens.
Presented by Theo Panagopoulos
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THE DIRECTOR
Theo Panagopoulos is a Greek-Lebanese-Palestinian filmmaker, film programmer and PhD researcher based in Scotland. His creative and academic work explore themes of collective memory, displacement, fragmented identities and archives.
In early 2024 he completed his fiction short film called "The Key" commissioned by BFI Network and Screen Scotland and later in the year he completed his documentary essay film called “The flowers stand silently, witnessing”, commissioned by the Scottish Documentary Institute’s Bridging the Gap scheme, which had its World Premiere at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.
He has worked as a film programmer with the Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival and the SAFAR Film Festival. He has been selected as part of multiple programming labs and initiatives such as The Barbican Emerging Curators (2023), SAFAR Futures (2022) and Film Hub Scotland's New Promoter Scheme (2021) and was a pre-selector for Encounters Short Film Festival (2023).
He is currently a PhD researcher and Associate lecturer at the University of West of Scotland developing his thesis on film archives and using performance as a decolonial counternarrative.
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