Levitations emerges at a pivotal moment in our region, where the status quo becomes increasingly untenable, especially in the face of unyielding and detrimental external forces. This short film explores the idea of dream states, both literal and metaphorical, probing the intricate layers of freedom within a context marked by ongoing genocide and escalating oppression. It confronts the profound challenges of realizing such dreams in the present moment, yet it also emphasizes the vital importance of maintaining hope—of envisioning a future where these dreams, however improbable, might one day become reality.
Dalia Al Kury. Photo Jónína Guðbjörg Guðbjartsdóttir
Dalia Al Kury is an acclaimed film director whose work navigates cross-genre storytelling. Her films explore the resilience and political unconscious of the everyday hero in the Arab World. In addition to her rich practical experience, Dalia is well-grounded in academic study; she holds an MA from Goldsmiths, University of London, and a PhD in artistic research at the Norwegian Film School.
Dalia´s film practice is character driven and pendulums between staging memories and simulating past experiences , to staging dreams and hopeful speculation of our collective futures. Both approaches from staging in documentary to Speculating through fiction- are deeply rooted in pausing the question “what if” to offer another possible narrative. Dalia uses filmmaking not as a way to document reality, but as a way of commanding it, through active and radical imagining of justice and liberation.
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