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45TH PARALLEL

Lawrence Abu Hamdan
UK, 2022
15 min.

Inside a building where a thick border line is drawn on the floor, a monologue tells stories of permeable borders and impermeable laws, and reflecting on how free movement, free knowledge and free space are under threat.

45th Parallel references that scene in The Godfather where Michael walks unarmed into the restaurant and exits the toilet with a pistol. The film itself channels this kind of an unlikely product between the threat of violence and the story of terror. Lawrence Abu Hamdan proposes an account of boundaries understood as abstract conventions reduced to their primitive form – here a black strip on laminate flooring – and of the institutional acerbity that helps them maintain their authority. The greater the difference between the territories it separates, the stronger the border. In reality, the border is an element that creates, and not preserves, distance between worlds. (Emil Vasilache)

Data proiecție și locație

Saturday, 30th of September | 18:30

Cinema Elvire Popesco, Bd. Dacia, nr. 77
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Lawrence Abu Hamdan

Lawrence Abu Hamdan is an independent investigator for Private Ear. His investigations focus on sound and linguistics and have been used as evidence at the UK Asylum and Immigration Tribunal and as advocacy for organisations such as Amnesty International and Defence for Children International together with fellow researchers from Forensic Architecture. Abu Hamdan received his PhD in 2017 from Goldsmiths College University of London and in 2021 completed a professorship at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz where he developed his research airpressure.info. Past fellowships have been held at the University of Chicago and the New School, New York.

  • Technical sheet
  • Production and distribution
  • CAST: Mahdi Fleifel
  • SCREENPLAY: Lawrence Abu Hamdan
  • CINEMATOGRAPHER: Jarred Alterman
  • SOUND RECORDING: Jon Mendel
  • SOUND DESIGN : Adam Laschinger
  • EDITOR: Inneke Van Waeyenberghe, Jarred Alterman
  • COMPOSER: Susan Alcorn Lobato
  • PRODUCED BY: LONO Studio
  • PRODUCER: Luke W Moody

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