SYDNEY ARAB FILM FESTIVAL

Not From Here is a short film that challenges the historical photograph as it morphs before our very eyes. It contests the idea of identity formation while subverting Western hegemonic historical narratives. Unleashing the unheimlich through repetition, it emphasises the multiplicity of moods and representations that can be inhabited in the same Arab women. Dislocating the “”prim and proper”“, it challenges assumptions about race, gender and class.”