Noor Abed, ‘A Night We Held Between’ (2024). Film still. Courtesy the artist.
The film ‘A Night We Held Between’ by Noor Abed centres around ‘Song for The Fighters’, which was found at the sonic archive of the Popular Art Centre Palestine. Through the layers of the song, in a labyrinth of sounds and sites, the film conjures history as a permanent present tense, a collective and imaginative act.
The film was shot in ancient sites in Palestine; caves, carved holes, underground passages, and wild valleys. In this way, the land becomes the main character and the film delves beyond the surface to reveal a vast, hidden world similar in many ways, to the one we already know. Scenes intertwine ritual practices, and narratives of community and resistance into everyday representations of social life in Palestine, emphasising the role of collective rhythmic movement and the impact that shared feelings can evoke in creating and sustaining a community.
About the artist /
Noor Abed (Palestine) works at the intersection of performance and film, combining forms of the ‘staged’ and the ‘documentary’. Her practice examines notions of social choreographies and collective formations, searching through the connection between the notion of ‘synchrony’ and social action. In 2020, she co-founded, with Lara Khaldi, the School of Intrusions, an independent educational collective in Ramallah, Palestine. Abed was an assistant curator in documenta fifteen, Kassel (2021–2022), and an artist in residence at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam (2022–24). She was awarded the Han Nefkens Foundation/ Museu Tàpies Film Production Grant in 2022, and her film 'A Night We Held Between' was selected as a first-prize winner of the e-flux Film Award (2024). Abed's book 'Stars at Midday' was published by Occasional Papers in October 2024.
Exhibition Details
‘A Night We Held Between’ (2024) will be presented in the ground floor gallery on Friday 26 and Saturday 27 September, 12—5pm.
The film is 30 minutes and will be screened on a loop between these times.
Access
The screening takes place on the ground floor.
The Common Guild has step free access.
The film is presented on the ground floor.
Accessible toilets are available.
The nearest subway station is Bridge Street, a 14 minute walk away.
