Zeno’s Paradox: collective reading, standing together

“Zeno’s Paradox”: An anti-war anti-occupation documentary and animation short on hope of equal human rights in Israel and Palestine, in a gathering between those from the region and in the diaspora. Inspired by a reading of Mahmoud Darwish’s Rita and the Rifle.

Danny Atari, Daniella Vinitski Mooney & Nava Messas Waxman

Interspersed with video footage is Atari’s animation and a multilingual reading of Mahmoud Darwish’s poem, Rita and the Rifle, spoken in Arabic, Hebrew, and English voice-over. Darwish’s narrator finds a rifle between his eyes and his beloved; so too, Atari and Vinitski Mooney create a “third space” to ask, what kinds of relations are possible amid cycles of catastrophic violence?

This piece is a part of the Just Meeting / Doctes Assemblées series. If you want to see the other projects curated by TheatreAgora.ca, click here.