Official Lineup
At Trianon CinemaPalCoreCore
2024
|Short, Documentary
|6'
by Dana Dawud
[Online archival material of Palestine]
Synopsis
A hypnotic fusion of dance, archival footage, and internet-circulated videos that collapse past and present into a visceral portrait of Palestinian life. Opening with The Lovers Songs Band and excerpts from Jenin, Jenin (2003), the film assembles fleeting yet powerful images: flag-waving horseback riders, families at the beach, teenagers dancing in flames, and acts of resistance against occupation. Dawud’s deadpan narration— “I witness you witness me, we are martyrs together”—pulls the viewer into a shared act of witnessing. Through rhythmic disorder and movement, the film captures the resilience, rebellion, and everyday joys of Palestinian existence, focusing particularly on youth and women in their defiant assertion of life.
The film was commissioned by Onty and OnMyComputer for the CoreCore symposium which took place in New York, November 2023.
Official Poster
Biography
Dana Dawud is an artist and writer whose practice navigates the intersections of film, montage, and sound design. Engaging with the fluidity of internet cinema, her work expands across online and offline spaces, tracing the ruptures and reverberations of culture. Dawud is the founder of Open Secret (2024–present), an off-site touring screening series featuring emerging and post-net artists, and Pleasurehelmet (2020–present), a sound project archiving experimental pieces and niche internet cultures. Dawud’s Monad (2024–ongoing) is a film series in perpetual flux, unfolding through mutation and accumulation. Neither fixed nor final, each iteration of Monad reconfigures itself with every screening, layering past, present, and future into a shifting cinematic form.
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