Jan 14, 2026
Jan 14, 2026
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5.30pm
5.30pm
Screening
Screening
Screening
Partition
Partition
Partition (2025)
A film by CML Co-Director Diana Allan
Runtime: 61 Minutes
Post-Screening Q+A with Diana Allan In-Person
Location: Peterson Hall 108
Co-Presented by McGill Refugee Research Group
Synopsis:
Partition fuses archival footage from the British occupation of Palestine with audio recorded of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, tracing lines of continuity left by seismic displacement. Silent films gathered in imperial collections hold histories that have barely been told, and ways of colonial seeing that seep into the present; Partition uses dialectical montage and asynchronous sound to examine both. Recovering Palestinian presence through story, voice and song, unraveling colonial pasts through soundscapes of the precarious present, Partition is a meditation on what bodies remember and empires forget.
Bio:
Diana Allan is a filmmaker and professor of anthropology at McGill University where she co-directs the Critical Media Lab. She is the co-director of the Nakba Archive and holds a Canada Research Chair in the anthropology of living archives. Her publications include Voices of the Nakba: A living history of Palestine (2021) and Refugees of the Revolution: Experiences of Palestinian Exile (2014).
Partition (2025)
A film by CML Co-Director Diana Allan
Runtime: 61 Minutes
Post-Screening Q+A with Diana Allan In-Person
Location: Peterson Hall 108
Co-Presented by McGill Refugee Research Group
Synopsis:
Partition fuses archival footage from the British occupation of Palestine with audio recorded of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, tracing lines of continuity left by seismic displacement. Silent films gathered in imperial collections hold histories that have barely been told, and ways of colonial seeing that seep into the present; Partition uses dialectical montage and asynchronous sound to examine both. Recovering Palestinian presence through story, voice and song, unraveling colonial pasts through soundscapes of the precarious present, Partition is a meditation on what bodies remember and empires forget.
Bio:
Diana Allan is a filmmaker and professor of anthropology at McGill University where she co-directs the Critical Media Lab. She is the co-director of the Nakba Archive and holds a Canada Research Chair in the anthropology of living archives. Her publications include Voices of the Nakba: A living history of Palestine (2021) and Refugees of the Revolution: Experiences of Palestinian Exile (2014).
