As If No Misfortune Had Occured in the Night

United Kingdom | 2022 | 21 min | Experimental As If No Misfortune Had Occurred in the Night is a three-channel video work featuring an Arabic-language opera on loss, mourning and inherited trauma. A single aria is performed by Palestinian soprano Nour Darwish. The aria is a new composition by Lebanese composer Anthony Sahyoun, based on Gustav Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder and the Palestinian traditional song Mashaal. Filmed in a derelict chapel, the opera is accompanied by archival material from Palestine and special effects. The piece is presented in black and white as a three-screen projection, like an altar triptych. A film by Larissa Sansour and Søren Lind Born in East Jerusalem, Larissa Sansour (Palestinian/Danish) studied Fine Art in Copenhagen, London and New York. She represented Denmark at the 58th Venice Biennale.Recent solo exhibitions include Whitworth Gallery in Manchester, KINDL in Berlin, Copenhagen Contemporary in Denmark and Dar El-Nimer in Beirut. She lives and works in London. Søren Lind is a Danish author, director and visual artist. With a background in philosophy, Lind wrote books on mind, language and understanding before turning to art, film and fiction. He has published novels, shorts story collections. His children’s books are translated into several languages. Lind screens and exhibits his films at museums, galleries and film festivals worldwide. His work was shown at the Danish Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennial. Other recent venues and festivals include the Whitworth Gallery in Manchester, KINDL in Berlin, Copenhagen Contemporary (DK), International Film Festival Rotterdam (NL) and BFI London Film Festival (UK). He lives and works in London.