Film showing: Partition

RSC Public Seminar Series, Trinity term 2025

Series convened by Professor Tom Scott-Smith and Professor Catherine Briddick

About the film

Produced and directed by Professor Diana Allan, this documentary 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.

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