Seçil Dağtaş, holder of the 2025-2026 Germaine Tillion: Tomorrow, the Mediterranean – Région Sud/Iméra Chair, will end her closed-door workshop on the subject of archives under conditions of rupture with a screening of the film Partition by filmmaker and anthropologist Diana Allan (McGill University). The screening will be followed by a Q&A session with the director.
This screening is open to all, free of charge, but registration is mandatory.
Poster of the film Partition by Diana Allan
Screening of the documentary Partition
Tuesday 9 June from 4pm to 5.30pm in the conference room of the Maison des Astronomes of Iméra (2 place Leverrier, 13004 Marseille)
The film
Partition 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.
Year: 2025
Running time: 61 minutes
Language: Arabic with English subtitles
The director: Diana Allan
Diana Allan is a filmmaker and professor of anthropology at McGill University. She is the co-director of the Nakba Archive and holds a Canada Research Chair in the anthropology of living archives. Her publications include Voices of the Nakba: A living history of Palestine (2021) and Refugees of the Revolution: Experiences of Palestinian Exile (2014).
Coming to Iméra
- Pedestrian access: meet at the gate at 2 place Leverrier, 13004 Marseille.
- PRM access: entrance via Allée Jean-Louis Pons, 13004 Marseille.
