A permanent provisional situation (2008) is a piece made up of 96 small screens that make up a document on Palestinian cinema. Through the testimonies on Youtube of three of its exiled filmmakers - Maya Sambar, Osama Qashoo and Saeed Taji -, newsreels recorded on screens, interviews and images of the places and inhabitants suffering genocide, it reflects on repetition, the visibility of denunciations and how narrative is reduced to a visual and auditory tapestry. Its author, Pedro Ortuño, stated at the time that he was "sixty years after the beginning of a provisional political situation that is beginning to seem permanent".

The Palestinian genocide - particularly alarming and mediatised in recent months but dragging on a history of decades - is once again today one of the sources of despair and impotence for those of us who face a political life, in the face of the ostensible ineffectiveness of our struggle against the suffering caused by states and corporations. The video will be accompanied by the intervention of Santiago López Petit, whose trajectory of thought and writing is profoundly related to these feelings of affliction and search for hope. Santiago says, "If life is a word, wanting to live is a cry. But for wanting to live to become a challenge requires a force of pain. We will only be able to enter into the force of pain if we understand social discomfort as our own, and our own discomfort as social discomfort".

With the participaton of Santiago López Petit

By Hamaca

Santiago López Petit (Barcelona, 1950) was a militant of the workers' autonomy in the 1970s and worked for years as a chemist. He later studied philosophy. He taught Contemporary Philosophy at the University of Barcelona for 20 years. He has participated in many of the resistance movements following the crisis of the workers' movement. He is one of the driving forces behind the platform Espacio en Blanco, whose aim is to build critical and experimental thought. He has published, among others, the following books: Entre el Ser y el Poder. Una apuesta por el querer vivir (republished, Madrid, 2009), Amar y pensar. El odio del querer vivir (Barcelona, 2005), La movilización global. Breve tratado para atacar la realidad (Madrid, 2009), Hijos de la noche (Barcelona, 2014), El gesto absoluto. El caso Pablo Molando: una muerte política (Logroño, 2018) and the novel Tan a prop de la vida (Barcelona, 2021).

Pedro Ortuño is a multimedia artist. He combines his teaching work with artistic and research work and curates audiovisual exhibitions. His works explore the intersection of social sciences, art and media. He has participated in several R+D+R projects related to identity politics and underground film/video.

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