Please join us on November 20, 2024 at 5:00 PM for a screening of the film Spaces of Exception. After the screening will be a Q&A with the co-director of the film, Malek Rasamny.

Register here: https://tinyurl.com/spacesfilmqa

Spaces of Exception investigates and juxtaposes the struggles, communities, and spaces of the American Indian reservation and the Palestinian refugee camp. The film was shot from 2014 to 2017 in Arizona, New Mexico, New York, and South Dakota, as well as in Lebanon and the West Bank. Directed by Matt Peterson and Malek Rasamny, it is an attempt to understand the significance of the land—its memory and divisions—and the conditions for life, community, and sovereignty.

Spaces of Exception comes out of the long-term multimedia project The Native and the Refugee, which has been presented in Canada, Denmark, Ecuador, England, France, Guatemala, Italy, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Portugal, Syria, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates, within the refugee camps and reservations were the film was shot, and at venues including cinemas, museums, and universities.

The event is co-sponsored by departments and units on campus including:

Department of Asian American Studies
American Indian Studies Center
Center for the Study of Women, Streisand Center
Mellon Foundation
Consortium for Palestine Studies