Genres: short

  • your father was born 100 years old, and so was the Nakba

    A Palestinian grandmother returns to her hometown Haifa through Google Streetview, today, the only way she can see Palestine.

  • Invincible Spring

    An artist’s lost innocence comes calling. Modified memories of Clara – James’ lost love as a child – are clashed with scenes from his current infatuation with an unfaithful businesswoman. 16mm film, digital video, and CGI are used to illustrate Jame’s fluctuating states of mind, while variations of Ravel’s “Pavane pour une infante défunte” serve as a pulsing connection among them.

  • Dream of Water and Song

    A woman’s soul traverses the sea of time.

  • The Sound of dust from Asteroids and Comets, that have been torn apart by the Sun’s gravity

    The Sound of dust from Asteroids and Comets, that have been torn apart by the Sun’s gravity Animated(2023 04:53), super 8 film, painted by hand with ink direct on the celluloid. on a super 8 film material that “failed” when I developed it by hand. The sound collage consists of parts of a material from Nasa, where they have tried to illustrate how different sounds could sound in space if there were sound waves there.

  • Where the snow-fed Rio del Llano met the edge of the desert

    Where the snow-fed Rio del Llano met the edge of the desert(2023 Length: 04:56 min), is a site specific film, in 2019 I visited the geographical location, Pear blossom Highway in California which is near the Antelope Valley (the armpit of California). A place also known as The Socialist Ruins. Here, Job Harriman, a socialist lawyer who ran for Vice President of the United States, Governor of California and Mayor of Los Angeles, founded in 1914 the cooperative colony – Llano del Rio which means plain by the river and the colony flourished for four years between 1914 to 1918.…

  • Peace

    Peace, takes its starting point from a super 8 found footage film material, and is a collaboration between me and Lisa Marr. I asked Lisa to read the word peace in 18 different languages; English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Swedish, Russian, Polish, Hungarian, Greek, Turkish, Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Hindi, Urdu. Sound/Voice: Lisa Marr

  • Road 3

    Repeating and predictable cycles, memory loss

  • Video Art on the Edge

    “Video Art on the Edge” explores the creative potential of videotape degradation through manipulating documentation of an historical video installation exhibition from The Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam (1984), turning the material failure of video into an abstract, generative force. Video is a medium with a long but limited lifespan. Although the primary components of a legible image and audio endure for many years, the process of playback and reproduction inevitably produces degradation of videotape’s material substrate, producing distortions, particularly at the bottom edge of the image, upon playback. “Video Art on the Edge” explores what may be made of examining…

  • xīn nī 廖芯妮

    xīn nī 廖芯妮 (“understanding you”) is an intimate auto-ethnographic portrait expressed through dance and digital technologies. Liaw engages in intergenerational conversations with her family and community to transform the linguistic divide between her Chinese name and its Hakka translation into a space for healing. Drawing on themes of decolonizing queerness to emphasize self-love and self-curiosity, the work explores both physical and technological attachments. Bodies made up of 3D-rendered cultural objects hold space for the stories of Liaw’s elders, while expanding the growing web of her ancestral knowledge. 

  • Sultana’s reign

    Sultana of New York is a Palestinian drag queen, performer, and artist. “Sultana’s Rein” opens with a conversation with Sultana, as she is being painted by Jordanian artist, RIDIKKULUZ. Reflecting on her journey from Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon, to then New York, Sultana tells of the challenges of performing drag in conservative societies, her nostalgia for the glory days and the glamour of Egyptian cinema icons, and her struggle to prove her existence and her self-expression as a performer and artist. She also shares her love of celebration and her everlasting commitment to be true to herself.