Laura Menchaca Ruiz

For many years, the most prevalent images of Palestine have been those of death and destruction. These depictions are critical in helping people internationally understand the structural and physical violence that Palestinians face daily. However, what we lose when death and destruction is the most prominent story of Palestine, are the day-to-day joys of living there—the very reasons for which Palestinians have struggled to remain on their ancestral lands. In a context of strategic erasure, the project creates a digital public archive of 20 “slice of life” ethnographic short films produced alongside film participants, and disseminated via the web & social media. The archive will be accompanied by an article that takes the archive and its process of creation as its object of study.