IWM London launches its autumn season with the premiere of a new film by artist Rosalind Nashashibi, ELECTRICAL GAZA, as part of the IWM Contemporary programme. Rosalind Nashashibi is an award-winning artist whose work explores the rhythms and rituals of everyday life but often incorporates unexpected or fictional elements that challenge expectations. Born in Britain to a Palestinian father and an Irish mother Nashashibi brings a fascinating perspective of life in Gaza.

ELECTRICAL GAZA combines footage collected by Nashashibi during a visit to Gaza in 2014. In her 18 minute long film, Gaza resembles a place from myth: isolated, arrested in time, inaccessible and highly charged. Footage of cities and beaches, refugee camps of the Gaza Strip and Nashashibi’s entourage of fixer, translator and drivers, are merged with animated scenes. This will be the first time Nashashibi has used animation in her work.

“I aim to portray the place as I saw it, but also to find a way to show something of its nature as an alternative universe.” Rosalind Nashashibi

EVENT on November 21st: In conversation with Rosalind Nashashibi

Join award-winning artist Rosalind Nashashibi and Jonathan Watkins, Director of Ikon Gallery, and until recently Chair of IWM’s Art Commissions Committee, as they discuss the ideas behind Nashashibi’s new film, ELECTRICAL GAZA . Born in Britain to a Palestinian father and an Irish mother Nashashibi brings a fascinating perspective to this subject. Her work explores the rhythms and rituals of everyday life but often incorporates unexpected or fictional elements that challenge expectations; in this film she uses animation for the first time. ELECTRICAL GAZA is premiering at IWM London as part of the IWM Contemporary programme.