Hide Your Water from the Sun Jumana Emil Abboud and Isa Freij

13 Jul 2016-1 Jan 2000

Overview

Jumana Emil Abboud: Haunted Springs and Water Demons in Palestine takes its title from a 1920′s study by the pioneering ethnographer Dr. Tawfiq Canaan, documenting sites that were thought to be haunted by spirits, good and bad. With the remapping of the landscape – new towns, infrastructure, settlements, etc. – many of the sites have been buried, dried out, or obliterated. In the villages only the older generation recall such and such a haunted site, their knowledge often accompanied by fables once rumoured upon the village. For this event Abboud and cinematographer Isa Freij will present background on their journey to locate the well sites and some of the folk stories which belong to them. The presentation will be followed by a Q&A with curator Thomas Cuckle.