{"id":89960,"date":"2024-10-15T08:01:44","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T08:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/?p=89960"},"modified":"2025-07-17T11:09:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T11:09:22","slug":"larissa-sansour-and-soren-lind-familiar-phantoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/events-en\/larissa-sansour-and-soren-lind-familiar-phantoms","title":{"rendered":"LARISSA SANSOUR &#038; SOREN LIND. FAMILIAR PHANTOMS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Larissa Sansour and S\u00f8ren Lind<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong><em>Familiar Phantoms<\/em>, 2023<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Film, colour, sound, 42\u2019 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>EM\u03a3\u03a4 and the Athens Palestine Film Festival are pleased to present <em>Familiar Phantoms<\/em>, an experimental documentary short film about memory, history and trauma.<\/p>\n<p><em>Familiar Phantoms<\/em> is inspired by anecdotes from Sansour\u2019s own family history and her childhood in Bethlehem, making it her most personal film to date. Combining scenes filmed in a derelict mansion, Super 8 footage and private photos, the editing mimics the workings of memory, constantly revisiting the same imagery alongside new fragments in search of meaning. Throughout the film, the mansion serves as the seat of memory. In the rooms, vignettes are played out, adding a theatrical dimension, enlarging and exaggerating the narrative components, just as memory perpetually reworks, reinforces, adds and subtracts. While most scenes are acted out by actors, other scenes turn objects and mementos into sculptural installations, a dark space decorated with dozens of suspended love bird cages, a group of taxidermy seagulls sitting on the floor or a free-standing sink full to the brim of lemons.<\/p>\n<p>The work is in Arab, with English and Greek subtitles.<\/p>\n<p>This project is part of <em>In Frame<\/em> a series of satellite art projects running alongside the 2024 Athens Palestine Film Festival, presented by Dounias.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Larissa Sansour and S\u00f8ren Lind Familiar Phantoms, 2023 Film, colour, sound, 42\u2019 EM\u03a3\u03a4 and the Athens Palestine Film Festival are pleased to present Familiar Phantoms, an experimental documentary short film about memory, history and trauma. Familiar Phantoms is inspired by anecdotes from Sansour\u2019s own family history and her childhood in Bethlehem, making it her most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":89961,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"single-exhibition-post.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,30],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89960"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89960"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92403,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89960\/revisions\/92403"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}