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Khabur
Acknowledging archaeology’s colonial, extractive register, this work imagines artefacts’ experience as they are displaced from Syria to a Berlin museum.
Overview
Acknowledging archaeology’s colonial, extractive register, this work imagines artefacts’ experience as they are displaced from Syria to a Berlin museum. Screened as part of BFI London Film Festival 2023 Experimenta Shorts programme The Land is the Living Witness.
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