Canada Park
Canada Park is an experimental video poem exploring the politics of dis/appearance of Palestine as narrativized, mapped and imaged in Google Streetview and early 20th century colonial landscape photography of the ‘Holy Land’, namely at the site of the village of Imwas which is theologically conflated with Emmaus, a village cited in the bible. Imwas is erased and Emmaus marked a religious touristic site in the park, a self-fulfilled scriptural and algorithmic prophecy.
Credits
Director
Razan AlSalah
Animation
Ali Kays
Music
Nabiha Iqbal
Technical information
Color
Color
Image format
16:9
Sound
Stereo
Shooting format
HD
Documentation
Keywords
Palestine, Levant, Canada, lullaby, streetview, settler colonialism,
