film and video art
This film is an experimental documentary project that seeks to recount the multifaceted stories of the Nakba through the lens of a family. By weaving personal narratives with historical events, it attempts to reflect the broader, collective trauma experienced by Palestinians and also draws an important parallel to the “second” (if it ever really stopped since 1948…) Nakba happening to the people of Gaza as we speak. The film also delves into the layers of intergenerational trauma and the legacy passed down to children of exile or those exiled themselves.
Through this, the project explores profound questions: How do members of the Palestinian diaspora navigate their identity while living away from home? How do they reconnect with their cultural roots? These themes are examined implicitly throughout the film, using evocative elements like food, music, and archival material. Interwoven with these are the intimate interviews I conducted with some family members, adding depth to the narrative and offering a reflection on memory, displacement, and resistance.
Pebbles Underground is focused on showcasing and promoting experimental, avant-garde, underground, and no-to-low budget projects by artist-humans from all over the world. Absurd, uncanny, witty, humorous, slow-video – all are welcomed, and loved. Pebbles Underground is an independent project not funded by any government or corporation, and we intend to keep it that way. Main source of funding is personal donations from humans organizing the project, who are artists themselves, and the main drive of the project is formed by the energy and involvement of the organizers, and the public.
