Larissa Sansour

Larissa Sansour is a Palestinian filmmaker born in East Jerusalem in 1973 and studied Fine Art in Copenhagen, London and New York. Her work is interdisciplinary and uses film, photography, installation and sculpture. Larissa borrows heavily from the language of film, pop culture and science fiction. By approximating the nature, reality and complexity of life in Palestine and the Middle East to visual forms normally associated with entertainment and televised pastime, her grandiose and often humorous schemes clash with the gravity expected from works commenting on the region. She is currently living in London.