Larissa Sansour Trailers

In the Future, They Ate from the Finest Porcelain Trailer (2015)

09 December 2015

In the Future They Ate From the Finest Porcelain resides in the cross-section between sci-fi, archaeology and politics.

Run Lara Run Trailer (2009)

01 January 2009

Dressed as a kind of super hero in all black and a red helmet, Larissa Sansour films herself running around Palestine.

A Space Exodus Trailer (2008)

01 December 2008

A Space Exodus quirkily sets up an adapted stretch of Stanley Kubrick's Space Odyssey in a Middle Eastern political context.

Familiar Phantoms Trailer (2023)

02 March 2023

Familiar Phantoms is an experimental documentary short film about memory, history and trauma.

Happy Days Trailer (2005)

01 January 2005

Nation Estate Trailer (2013)

23 January 2013

A clinically dystopian, yet humorous approach to the deadlock in the Middle East.

As If No Misfortune Had Occurred in the Night Trailer (2022)

16 September 2022

An Arabic-language opera about mourning and inherited trauma. Performed by Palestinian soprano Nour Darwish, it fuses Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder with Masha’al, a traditional Palestinian song.

Soup Over Bethlehem Trailer (2006)

01 January 2006

Soup Over Bethlehem depicts an ordinary Palestinian family, Sansour's own, around a dinner table on a rooftop overlooking the West Bank city of Bethlehem.

Bethlehem Bandolero Trailer (2004)

01 January 2004

Bethlehem Bandolero is a kitsch video featuring Sansour herself as a Mexican gunslinger arriving in Bethlehem for a duel with the Israeli Wall.

Trespass the Salt Trailer (2012)

01 January 2012

Through this intimate and fictionalized dinner, an impossible happening becomes real. The work explores cultural fabrications and similarities in a non-mediated moment outside the Western gaze - even if the space it seeks is invariably conditioned by it.