‘'Partition' merges archives from the British occupation of Palestine with audio recordings of refugees today, revealing stories that were not told.
A powerful and transparent exercise in exploring and reconstructing the archive, where the past is not approached as a closed entity, but as a living entity that engages with the urgencies of the present. Images unfold that interrogate the wounds of the recent past, revealing how these persist, transform, and continue to resonate in contemporary issues. Thus, the archive becomes a territory of dispute, reinterpretation, and possibility.
Josefa Infante Lozano, FIDOCS Programming Assistant 29
Diana Allan is a filmmaker and professor of anthropology at McGill University. She is co-director of the Nakba Archive and holds a Canadian Research Chair in the Anthropology of Living Archives. Her publications include 'Refugees of the Revolution: Experiences of Palestinian Exile' (2014) and 'Voices of the Nakba: A Living History of Palestine' (2021).