https://larissasansour.com Larissa Sansour Tue, 03 Jun 2025 10:41:28 +0000 https://larissasansour.com en https://larissasansour.com/HOME Thu, 30 Jan 2020 13:36:08 +0000 Larissa Sansour https://larissasansour.com/HOME https://larissasansour.com/A-Sunken-Tale-of-Losses-Delayed-2026 Tue, 03 Jun 2025 10:41:28 +0000 Larissa Sansour https://larissasansour.com/A-Sunken-Tale-of-Losses-Delayed-2026 Recently shot in Amsterdam as a commission for the Wereldmuseum, A Sunken Tale of Losses Delayed is a Palestinian pirate film engaged in a dialogue about colonial artefacts looted by imperial powers. Starring Maisa Abd Elhadi and Fadi Abdel Shafi, the film is scheduled to premiere as part of a larger solo exhibition at the Wereldmuseum in April 2026. A Sunken Tale of Losses Delayed, film, in post-production, Larissa Sansour/Søren Lind, 2019 https://larissasansour.com/From-the-Remains-of-Those-We-Lost-2025 Tue, 03 Jun 2025 10:26:23 +0000 Larissa Sansour https://larissasansour.com/From-the-Remains-of-Those-We-Lost-2025 In a dystopian future where cloning sustains a disappearing population, From the Remains of Those We Lost imagines a sterile farm dedicated to replicating lost citizens. Through a hauntingly pristine environment, Sansour explores themes of grief, memory, and engineered continuity. Drawing on sci-fi and bioethics, the work questions what is preserved—and what is erased—of humanity in the wake of environmental and geo-political disasters. From the Remains of Those We Lost, sculptures, 50cm, epoxy/silicone, Larissa Sansour/Søren Lind, 2019 https://larissasansour.com/Familiar-Phantoms-2023 Sun, 12 Mar 2023 17:37:19 +0000 Larissa Sansour https://larissasansour.com/Familiar-Phantoms-2023 Familiar Phantoms is an experimental documentary short film about memory, history and trauma. Blending live action, special effects, private family photos and archival footage, the film explores the impact on fiction on the creation and reinterpretation of memory. Familiar Phantoms is inspired by anecdotes from my family history and my old childhood in Bethlehem, making it my most personal film to date. Shot in a derelict mansion and a black studio, the film oscillates between slow, fluid exploratory sequences and fast-paced collages of objects, mementos, family photos and Super 8 footage, its visuals and editing mimicking the actual workings of memory, constantly revisiting the same imagery alongside new fragments in search of meaning – while alternating between storytelling and ruminations on memory. Familiar Phantoms, film, 42’, Larissa Sansour/Søren Lind, 2022 https://larissasansour.com/Misfortune-2022 Tue, 08 Mar 2022 14:44:43 +0000 Larissa Sansour https://larissasansour.com/Misfortune-2022 As If No Misfortune Had Occurred in the Night is a three-channel video work featuring an Arabic-language opera on loss, mourning and inherited trauma. A single aria is performed by Palestinian soprano Nour Darwish. The aria is a new composition by Lebanese composer Anthony Sahyoun, based on Gustav Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder and the Palestinian traditional song Mashaal. Filmed in a derelict chapel, the opera is accompanied archival material from Palestine and special effects. The piece is presented in black and white as a three-screen projection, like an altar triptych. As If No Misfortune Had Occurred in the Night, 3-channel film, 21’, Larissa Sansour/Søren Lind, 2022 https://larissasansour.com/In-Vitro-2019 Thu, 30 Jan 2020 13:36:08 +0000 Larissa Sansour https://larissasansour.com/In-Vitro-2019 Commissioned by the Danish Arts Foundation for the 58th Venice Biennale, In Vitro, co-directed with Søren Lind,  is a 2-channel Arabic-language sci-fi film filmed in black and white. It is set in the aftermath of an eco-disaster. An abandoned nuclear reactor under the biblical town of Bethlehem has been converted into an enormous orchard. Using heirloom seeds collected in the final days before the apocalypse, a group of scientists are preparing to replant the soil above. In Vitro, 2-channel film, 28’, Larissa Sansour/Søren Lind, 2019 https://larissasansour.com/Monument-for-Lost-Time-2019 Thu, 30 Jan 2020 15:17:01 +0000 Larissa Sansour https://larissasansour.com/Monument-for-Lost-Time-2019 Commissioned by the Danish Arts Foundation for the 58th Venice Biennale, Monument for Lost Time takes a psychological object from In Vitro's fiction and converts it to a physically imposing fact. The sphere is painted in Black 4.0, a shade so black that no light is reflected. This turns the sphere into an optical illusion, rendering it virtually absent, yet at the same time intimidatingly present and overwhelming, as an embodiment of inherited trauma.The floors are concrete, with interspersed tiles manufactured by a Anan Tiles in Nablus, creating an architectural intervention. The walls are light grey, and a soundscape based on low frequency vibrations plays as a backdrop. Monument for Lost Time, 480cm sculpture, fibreglass/steel/tiles/sound, Larissa Sansour/Søren Lind, 2019 Photos: Ugo Carmeni https://larissasansour.com/AFTER-2019 Mon, 10 Feb 2020 12:10:31 +0000 Larissa Sansour https://larissasansour.com/AFTER-2019 AFTER combines film stills and production stills from In Vitro to tell a dystopian story of memory, heritage and nostalgia. AFTER, c-prints, Larissa Sansour and Søren Lind, 2019 https://larissasansour.com/Until-It-Was-Black-2017 Sat, 01 Feb 2020 09:49:36 +0000 Larissa Sansour https://larissasansour.com/Until-It-Was-Black-2017 And They Covered the Sky Until It Was Black is an installation made up of 1500 polyresin spaceships. The spaceships are 20cm in length and assume the shape of insects, so that they as group appear as a dark locust swarm. With the reference to the plagues of The Old Testament, the installation becomes a futuristic doomsday vision with biblical undertones. And They Covered the Sky Until It Was Black, Larissa Sansour/Søren Lind, 2017 https://larissasansour.com/Archaeology-in-Absentia-2017 Sat, 01 Feb 2020 10:17:58 +0000 Larissa Sansour https://larissasansour.com/Archaeology-in-Absentia-2017 Archaeology in Absentia is a sculptural installation of fifteen 20cm bronze munition replicas. Engraved on a disc inside each capsule are the coordinates, longitude and latitude, to a deposit of hand-painted porcelain plates with folkloric patterns buried in Palestine. With the porcelain itself absent from the installation, the bomb shells and the references they hold represent the archaeological artefacts in absentia. Archaeology in Absentia, scultures, 20cm, bronze, Larissa Sansour/Søren Lind, 2016