Science Fiction Against the Margins: An Evening with Larissa Sansour

Born in East Jerusalem, Palestine, and currently based in London, interdisciplinary artist Larissa Sansour creates works that examine the collective memory and trauma of the Palestinian people through allegorical and experimental science fiction films. Sansour works closely with her partner, Danish filmmaker and writer Søren Lind, co-directing and writing most of their films. Our closing night screening includes Sansour and Lind's science fiction works: A Space Exodus (2009), Nation Estate (2013), In the Future They Ate From the Finest Porcelain (2015), and In Vitro (2019). Though varied in aesthetic and approach, the films relate to one another in their examination of inherited history and identity, trauma and resistance. Larissa Sansour will join us for an in person Q&A after the screening.

Science Fiction Against the Margins, a PST ART: Art & Science Collide film series is presented by UCLA Film & Television Archive in partnership with UCLA Cinema & Media Studies Program.