Don’t Forget The Water

A phone conversation sets the diasporic table as a disembodied figure prepares Qahwah Arabi / Arabic Coffee. Here, the contradictions inherent in Google Translate’s instant camera feature are made visible through glitched mistranslations. Using these flaws as a prompt, the communication between a mother and a daughter considers ambiguity as a source of embodied knowledge. 

Film Maker
Hajjar, Christina
Year
2021
Country
Canada
Length
5
Category
Abstraction, Arab, art & artists, body, Canada, Childhood, Culture, Diaspora, Essay, Ethnography, Families, Feminism, Food, gay, Gender, Geography, Identity, Immigration, Language, lesbian, LGBTQ, Memory, Oral Histories, Performance, Poetry, Race + Ethnicity, sexuality, Time + Space, Typography, War + Conflict, Work about Women, Work by Women
Genre
documentary, Drama, experimental, Installation, queer, short

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