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Prismatic Ground Presents

As If No Misfortune Had Occurred in the Night

20m

Directed by Søren Lind and Larissa Sansour • 2022 • United Kingdom, Denmark

AS IF NO MISFORTUNE HAD OCCURRED IN THE NIGHT is a three-channel video work featuring an Arabic-language opera on loss, mourning, and inherited trauma, performed by Palestinian soprano Nour Darwish and accompanied by archival material from Palestine.

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