Black and Arab Encounters On Screen is an evolving live video essay exploring parallels, strains, convergences and ruptures in on-screen encounters between Black and Arab characters, and the off-screen realities from which they emerged.

Born from the desire to foster a more intersectional understanding of the ongoing genocide in Palestine, the talk explores the Hollywoodisation of radical Black politics and aesthetics, the zenith and aftermath of the Non-Aligned movement, and the history of settler colonialism – while asking what role film has and should play concerning these phenomena. Consisting of a montage of rare and archival footage, and finishing with ‘Roadworks’, a short filmed performance by Palestinian artist Mona Hatoum shot in Brixton, the hybrid talk examines filmic manifestations of intercontinental solidarity and its limitations, as the topic relates to African and Arab peoples, and all those who fall somewhere in-between the false dichotomy.