Cinema Nights at the Museum: Spaces of Exception

7 p.m. ET Friday, February 7, 2025

Cinema Nights at the Museum: Spaces of Exception

In-person at AANM
$5 Suggested Donation

AANM’s Cinema Nights at the Museum continues with the screening of Spaces of Exception, directed by Matt Peterson and Malek Rasamny. Profiling the American Indian reservation alongside the Palestinian refugee camp, this work is an attempt to understand the significance of the land – its memory and divisions – and the conditions for life, community and sovereignty.

Immediately following the screening, we are pleased to be joined in-person by directors Matt Peterson and Malek Rasamny for an intimate talkback. The screening will take place at AANM and is free of charge with a suggested $5 donation at the door. 100% of donations will go to Middle East Children’s Alliance, which is focused on relief for Palestine.

90 minutes / 2019 / Occupied Territories, United States, Lebanon / Documentary / English, Arabic with English Subtitles/In-Person Screening

About the Filmmakers

Matt Peterson is an organizer at Woodbine, an experimental space in New York City. He directed the documentary film Scenes from a Revolt Sustained (2014), and co-edited the books In the Name of the People (2018) and The Mohawk Warrior Society (forthcoming spring 2022).

Malek Rasamny is a researcher and filmmaker based between Paris and Beirut. He was a founding member of the LERFE space in Harlem and the Red Channels film collective, and is co-editor of the book The Mohawk Warrior Society (forthcoming spring 2022). He is currently working on a doctoral research project on reincarnation in post-war Lebanon at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris.

For questions, e-mail Dave Serio at [email protected].

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