A Space Exodus

A Space Exodus quirkily sets up an adapted stretch of Stanley Kubrick’s Space Odyssey in a Middle Eastern political context. The film follows the director herself onto a phantasmagoric journey through the universe, echoing Kubrick’s thematic concerns for human evolution, progress and technology. However, in her film, Sansour posits the idea of a first Palestinian into space, and, referencing Armstrong’s moon landing, she interprets this theoretical gesture as “a small step for a Palestinian, a giant leap for mankind”.
The recognisable music scores of the 1968 science fiction film are changed to arabesque chords, matching the surreal visuals of Sansour’s film.