Rosalind Nashashibi
2021Why Are You Angry?
Rosalind Nashashibi, Lucy Skaer
Taking its title from one of Gauguin’s late paintings, Nashashibi/Skaer follow in the painter’s footsteps to Tahiti to make contemporary images of women. The film opens fundamental questions about representations of women and the power of myth.
Why Are You Angry?
The States of Things
Rosalind Nashashibi
"The States of Things" is a B&W film of a Salvation Army jumble sale that is set to an old Egyptian love song by Um Kolthoum. Elderly ladies rummage through jumble at a sale held by the Salvation Army in Glasgow. 'Jumble sales aren't part of the normal capitalist system, so it doesn’t look quite like a Western Europe in the 21st century. And the music also makes the viewer unsure when or where this is.’
The States of Things
Dahiet Al Bareed, District of the Post Office
Rosalind Nashashibi
One slow, hot afternoon in a neighbourhood built to be a utopian suburb for employees of the Palestinian Post Office; now becomes a lawless no-man’s-land between occupied East Jerusalem and Ramallah.
Dahiet Al Bareed, District of the Post Office
Electrical Gaza
Rosalind Nashashibi
Rosalind Nashashibi
In Electrical Gaza, Nashashibi combines her footage of Gaza, and the fixer, drivers and translator who accompanied her there, with animated scenes. She presents Gaza as a place from myth; isolated, suspended in time, difficult to access and highly charged. Commissioned by the Trustees of Imperial War Museum.
Electrical Gaza
Part Two: The moon is nearly at the full. A team horse goes astray
Rosalind Nashashibi
A science fiction scene appears to be re-enacted on a beach, in which a man instructs a young woman walking lonely across the sand to return to base.
Part Two: The moon is nearly at the full. A team horse goes astray
Pygmalion Event
Rosalind Nashashibi
The simultaneous double projection of The Pygmalion Event is concerned with the topic of metamorphosis and the transitions in the process of cognition. The left hand screen shows the priest of the chapel at the dominican monastery in Vence, France, as he puts on his robes and presents them to the viewer. The chapel in Vence was designed by Henri Matisse as a Gesamtkunstwerk (an untranslatable German term denoting a "total", "complete" artwork), from the windows to the exact liturgical robes the priest is putting on in the film. On the right hand screen, a movie is projected that appears to react, as it were, to the scene on the left hand screen, for its images correspond to the actions of the priest. Colors, landscapes or pictograms are evoked and add a formal commentary to the narrative structure of the film on the screen to the left. Just like two different linguistic systems which read and react to each other, the images change because of their respective counterparts.
Pygmalion Event
Part One: Where There Is a Joyous Mood, There a Comrade Will Appear to Share a Glass of Wine
Rosalind Nashashibi
'Part One: Where There Is a Joyous Mood, There a Comrade Will Appear to Share a Glass of Wine' concerns affective relations and community building. The film is like a spell or a promise for a new and more liberating type of family structure. The film has a non-linear narrative that weaves various intimate settings, some within shared domestic spaces, others in outdoor environments. Shot in Lithuania, London, and Edinburgh, the film features the artist and her children, as well as close friends, which she considers extended family.
Part One: Where There Is a Joyous Mood, There a Comrade Will Appear to Share a Glass of Wine
