A Space Exodus quirkily sets up an adapted stretch of Stanley Kubrick’s Space Odyssey in a Middle Eastern political context. The recognizable music score of the 1968 science fiction film is changed to arabesque chords matching the surreal visuals of Sansour’s film.
The film follows the director herself on a phantasmagoric journey through the universe echoing Kubrick’s thematic concerns for human evolution, progress and technology. Sansour, however, posits the idea of a first Palestinian on the Moon: “A small step for a Palestinian, a giant leap for mankind”.
This five-minute short is packed with highly produced visual imagery. The arabesque elements ranging from the space suit to the music are merged within a dreamy galactic setting and elaborate special effects. A great deal of attention is paid to every detail of the film to create a never before seen case of thrillingly magical Palestinian displacement.