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It also, however, serves as an intentional reframing of the stereotypes that surround SWANA (South West Asian and North African) women in the western world—and for a teenage Roísín Tapponi, who was born in Ireland to an Iraqi father and Irish mother, seeing the film for the first time was a revelation. “I don’t know how I came across it, but I think it was the first time I’d ever seen an Arabic film that a woman had made, and I really identified myself and my experiences in what I was watching,” Tapponi says. “I just really felt that I was seeing myself represented for the first time.”
In the Lebanese-Palestinian artist Mona Hatoum’s 1988 art film, Measures of Distance, slides of Hatoum’s mother showering in her Beirut apartment are overlaid with letters written in Arabic to her daughter in London. While Hatoum reads the text aloud in English, the audio melds with snippets of their most intimate conversations. It’s a powerfully vulnerable portrait of a mother-daughter relationship across continents—in the artist’s words, the scene speaks to themes of “exile, displacement, disorientation, and a tremendous sense of loss as a result of the separation caused by war.”
In the years since, Tapponi has provided the same gift of self-recognition for many thousands more women of the Southwest Asian and North African diaspora living around the world through Habibi Collective, which supports SWANA women’s video and film practice through programming, fundraising, education, development, production, and collaborative practice. Since founding the collective in 2018, Tapponi has also developed Shasha, the first independent streaming service for SWANA cinema, for these films to be seen more widely. At 23 years old, Tapponi’s sharp curatorial eye and extraordinary drive have introduced an entirely new audience to the rich diversity of filmmaking across these cultures and their diasporas today.
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