Noor Abed

Noor Abed (Palestine, 1988) works at the intersection of performance and film. Abed attended the Whitney Independent Study Program in Νew York, and the Home Workspace Program (HWP) at Ashkal Alwan, Beirut. Her work has been screened and exhibited at Anthology Film Archives, New York; Gabes Cinema Fen Film Festival, Tunisia; Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, Lagos Biennale; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; Ujazdowski Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw; and the Eye Film Museum, Amsterdam, among others. In 2020, with Lara Khaldi, she founded the School of Intrusions, an independent educational collective in Ramallah, Palestine. Abed was an assistant curator for documenta 15, Kassel 2021-22, and an artist in residence at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam 2022-24.

© our songs were ready for all wars to come (Noor Abed, 1988)
Screening
11.10.2024
our songs were ready for all wars to come
Noor Abed, Palestine, 1988, 22’

On the intersection between performance and film, Palestinian filmmaker Noor Abed’s work explores human relationships. For example, our songs were ready for all wars to come is an 8mm footage choreography of playing women whose stories are linked by communal mourning rituals.