Boston Palestine Film Festival 2008

Denmark-based Palestinian video artist, Larissa Sansour explores the notion of territory as constitutive not only of national but also personal identity.  This work is both a requiem for a particular piece of stolen land and a wistful hymn for all of Palestine’s lands.

Larissa Sansour, born in Jerusalem in 1973, studied Fine Arts in Copenhagen, London and New York, and graduated with a master’s degree from New York University. Her work is interdisciplinary, immersed in the current political dialogue, and utilizes video, photography, experimental documentary as well as the Internet. Sansour’s work has been exhibited worldwide in galleries, museums as well as film festivals. Her most notable shows include the Tate Modern in London, UK, in May 2007 and the National Museum of Queen Sofia in Madrid, Spain, in September 2007. Besides videos, she has recently been commissioned to create a mega-billboard for the Images of the Middle East festival that took place in Copenhagen in the summer of 2006. She lives and works in Copenhagen.