About this Event
On Akka’s Shore by Umama Hamido is a film, a fictional memoir of Umama and her friend Tareq Al Jazzar based on hallucinations, dreams and out-of-body experiences. Scenes slip between Akka in Palestine, a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon, (Beirut) Umama’s city of birth, and London (their current home). On Akka’s Shore takes us on an exploration of the chaos of memory in relation to personal and collective history.
“Yesterday I dreamt that I was flying over the streets of Beirut. I was my camera, my body and my eye and all of me was one with the lens. You asked me how it was. I told you, the feeling resembles everything in it. Do you think places get stuck in time when we leave them?” – Umama Hamido.
The development of On Akka’s Shore was supported by Jerwood Charitable Foundation, SPILL and Artsadmin.
(Source: https://www.whitechapelgallery.org/events/on-akkas-shore/)
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Newington Green Meeting House, 39A Newington Green, London, United Kingdom
GBP 6.13 to GBP 14.25
