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The Liminal
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The Liminal

Alaa Al Minawi
Netherlands, Lebanon
2024
15 min
World Premiere
Synopsis

There is a wall. Just a simple wall, it seems—a partition. But if you listen carefully, you can hear voices. An entire community lives in the wall.

The now isn’t working, says the Lebanese-Palestinian-Dutch visual artist Alaa Minawi, and the time for waiting has run out. Humanity can’t seem to live together peacefully, and so he imagines a world in which we live parallel to each other. The earth’s unsatisfied inhabitants flourish in the wall. Outsiders can hear them, but they have no access.

The installation The Liminal is a work-in-progress, which is intended to result in a hybrid performance next year with the working title No Man’s Land. The greater the conflict between neighboring countries, the larger the no man’s land between them becomes.

And, Minawi argues, if you put all the no man’s land together, it becomes the largest state in the world. What would happen if those who no longer want to be complicit in the current reality were to claim it?

Winner of the Film Fund DocLab Interactive Grant 2024.

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Credits
15 min
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Spoken languages: English
Director
    Alaa Al Minawi
    Alaa Al Minawi
Created by
    Alaa Al Minawi
    Alaa Al Minawi
Production
    Alaa Al Minawi
    Alaa Al Minawi
Sound Design
    Ziad Moukarzel
    Ziad Moukarzel
Screenplay
    Alaa Al Minawi
    Alaa Al Minawi
Screening copy
    Alaa Al Minawi
    Alaa Al Minawi
Technical artist
    Thiadmer Van Gallen
    Thiadmer Van Gallen