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08 Dec 2025
18:00 - 20:00eikones Forum, Rheinsprung 11, 4051 Basel
Society & Culture
Cinematic Counter-Archives of Palestine: Memory, Erasure, and ResistanceFilm screening: Avant, il n’y avait rien / There Was Nothing Here Before (2024, 71min). Guest: Yvann Yagchi. Open to the public, no registration or ticket needed.
Film still from: Avant, il n`y avait rien / There Was Nothing Here Before (R: Yvann Yagchi, 2024) This program centers on the role of film as a counter-archive under conditions of genocide and Israeli apartheid, examining the systematic erasure of Palestinian culture in its many forms. Featuring A Night We Held Between (2024, Noor Abed), letter to a friend (2019, Emily Jacir), Electrical Gaza (2015, Rosalind Nashashibi), and There Was Nothing Here Before (2024, Yvann Yagchi), the screenings at eikones this fall will be followed by discussions with the filmmakers, foregrounding cinema as a space of memory, resistance, and reimagining.
Organized by: David Bucheli (eikones), Aïcha Revellat (eikones), Ute Holl (Media Studies), Falestin Naïli (Near and Middle Eastern Studies), Lorena Rizzo (African Studies), and Peter Burleigh (English Seminar).
With the generous support of eikones – Center for the Theory and History of the Image, Media Studies, swisspeace, African Studies, and Near and Middle Eastern Studies.
Program
- 22 October: letter to a friend (2019, 43min). Guest: Emily Jacir, Chair: Aïcha Revellat
- 13 November: Electrical Gaza (2015, 18min). Guest: Rosalind Nashashibi, Chair: Falestin Naïli
- 20 November: A Night We Held Between (2024, 30min). Guest: Noor Abed, Chair: Chus Martínez
- 8 December: Avant, il n’y avait rien / There Was Nothing Here Before (2024, 71min). Guest: Yvann Yagchi, Chair: Ute Holl
Veranstalter:
David Bucheli (eikones), Aïcha Revellat (eikones), Ute Holl (Media Studies), Falestin Naïli (Near and Middle Eastern Studies), Lorena Rizzo (African Studies), and Peter Burleigh (English Seminar)Export events asiCal
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