black and white photo of me standing in mid-foreground, contemplatively looking away from the camera.. I had a long sleeved black shirt on and was standing in front of a patterned wall on Bliss Street in Beirut, Lebanon.
Razan AlSalah
- Lecturer, Communication Studies
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Biography
Razan is a Palestinian artist and teacher based in Tiotiake/Montreal.
Her films work with the material aesthetics of disappearance of indigenous bodies, narratives and histories in colonial image worlds. Her moving images are both ghostly trespasses and seeping ruptures of the colonial image, that functions as another border, another wall. She thinks of her creative process as a collective recollection in a circle of relations with each other -and the unknown.
Her films have been supportedby the Canada Arts Council Grantee, Sundanceand the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture.She is the recipient of the BestNational Short/Medium Length Award at Rencontres Internationales de Documentaires de Montreal, NewFrontier Fellowship at Sundance, Latham Awardfor an Emerging Experimental Video Artistat Ann Arbor Film Festival, and Sunbird Award for Best Narrative Short at Cinema Days Palestine.
Herwork has shown at community-based and international film festivals includingFID Marseille, docLisboa, PrismaticGround, RIDM, Yamagata, Taiwan, Singapore, Yebisu,Valdivia, Melbourne, Glasgow and Beirut International.
Razan teachesfilm and media arts at the Communication Studies department at Concordia University.