Larissa Sansour’s cinema and the One-State solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict
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Larissa Sansour, Palestinian cinema, Anti-colonialism, Science fictionAbstract
This paper seeks to understand how Palestinian filmmaker Larissa Sansour mobilizes the Palestinian anti-colonialist struggle against a Zionist occupation, through the film analysis of Patrimônio Nacional (2013). In addition to reflecting on the interactions between the film's images within the narrative itself, we relate the work to the categories of violence, territory, temporality and traces; interviews with the filmmaker about her work and a situation in Palestine; and with the recent events after October 7, 2023. Furthermore, we investigated how Sansour appropriates the science fiction genre and its tropes as constituent elements to create a manifesto film based on decolonial theories from authors such as Achille Mbembe (2018), Ilan Pappé (2016) and Edward Said (2012), tensioning their concepts and notes together with the filmic narrative, especially those that refer to the prolonged effects of colonization processes such as the one established by Israel in Palestine since 1948. More than reflecting on the colonization, we understand that Larissa Sansour, through Patrimonio Nacional, establishes herself as an anti-colonial force, delivering a scathing critique of Zionism and the capitalist enterprises that accompany processes of coloniality like this.
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