The revolution will be LIVE

Experimental 16mm analog film made in response to the global Palestinian liberation movement where the filmmaker takes the role of a documentarian, archivist and activist.

This film is a record of a protest in Downtown Vancouver (B.C) in March 2024, around the time when the global Intifada movement was starting to pick-up steam. The filmmaker reflects on her own role as a media-artist in this movement by connecting herself into the archive through hand-scratch animation of resistance symbols - the word "Azadi" and the watermelon (Azadi means Freedom in Hindi, Urdu and Punjabi).
This flow of archive is then disrupted – as the filmmaker begins chanting a new-age version of the ending verse of Gill-Scott Heron's famous poem "the revolution will not be televised." In an age where the pain of Palestinians has been live-streamed to us on our phone screens, the Black and White analog and the chant "the revolution will not be live-streamed" serves to place this current moment in History and as a reminder of the fights and movements that have come before us.
The film also becomes an exercise in "ritual as resistance" where the action of scratching the animation on the film and chanting – both repetitive in nature, become a ritual of prayer/hope to continue fighting back, both for the filmmaker and hopefully the audience – bringing the feeling of being at a protest to them.