What then, What Now: A Night of Palestinian Films & Discussion

Featuring a screening of two short films of Oraib Toukan, Via Dolorosa (2021) and Offing (2021), followed by a conversation with Joanne Nucho, Kristine Khouri, and Randa Jarrar, this program focuses on Palestinian cultural production and the tension that Toukan explores between the hypervisibility and invisibilizing of the Palestinian experience. Toukan states, "The Palestinian struggle is painfully observable­­­, glaringly visible, and yet it always feels like it cannot be seen. Over time I conditioned myself to find meaning in the lexicon of the Arabic language on conscience and images. I dove into pictures to look—no longer for damning evidence of injustice, but for meaning in how we come to know things." Presented in connection with the OXY ARTS' PST ART: Art & Science Collide exhibition Invisibility: Powers & Perils, and in partnership with the Occidental College chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace.