Spaces of Exception: Film Screening and Q&A

Spaces of Exception (2019, 90 mins) investigates and juxtaposes the struggles, communities, and spaces of the American Indian reservation and the Palestinian refugee camp.

The film was shot from 2014 to 2017 in Arizona, New Mexico, New York, and South Dakota, as well as in Lebanon and the West Bank. Directed by Matt Peterson and Malek Rasamny, it is an attempt to understand the significance of the land—its memory and divisions—and the conditions for life, community, and sovereignty. Spaces of Exception comes out of the long-term multimedia project The Native and the Refugee.

Following the film screening, Malek Rasamny will join Brunel's Maria Kastrinou in conversation, taking questions from the audience.

DIRECTOR/PRODUCER Malek Rasamny is a researcher and filmmaker based in both New York and Beirut whose writings have been published in The Daily Star and Fuse. He’s worked at the Maysles Documentary Center, and was a founding member of the LERFE space in Harlem, the Ground Floor Collective, and Red Channels. He is currently working on a research project surrounding Druze sovereignty in Lebanon, Syria, and Israel, and has presented at the conferences of the American Druze Society.