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Screening will start at 12:00 Noon US EDT; 19:00 Palestine; 17:00 UK.; 18:00 Europe. Duration: 20 min., English, 2026. The film screening will be followed by a discussion with the audience.
About the Film
This short film was produced by Forensic Architecture for Palestine Museum US for display at the Venice Biennale 2026 exhibit Gaza - No Words - See the Exhibit. The film will be followed by a 12-minute recording from a presentation by head of Forensic Architecture Eyal Weisman at the opening of the exhibit.
Out of the thousands of incidents catalogued and mapped by Forensic Architecture (FA) as part of its documentation of Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza, an image has gradually taken shape: the destruction of ‘conditions of life’ for Palestinians in the besieged Strip. This is the material outcome of a more indirect and insidious violence targeting homes, hospitals, fishing boats, greenhouses, agricultural land—any and all features of the built and natural environment necessary to support the survival and sovereignty of a population. The deliberate ungrounding of these fundamental forms of infrastructure sets the stage for a slower and more torturous form of annihilation.
Eyal Weisman
Forensic Architecture
This film offers a broad overview of FA's multi-scalar approach to analysing Israeli military conduct in Gaza, from investigating individual incidents to observing overarching patterns through the construction and customisation of a new cartographic platform. This platform formed the basis of FA's 2024 legal report produced in support of South Africa's historic genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice, and the film, in turn, takes as its starting point the six emergent categories of violence considered in that report: displacement, destruction of civilian and medical infrastructure, destruction of agriculture, the targeting of aid, and spatial control. The compounding effects of these entwined areas of military conduct underpin the progressive degradation of conditions of life in Gaza, and by extension the urgent demand for legal accountability under the 1948 Genocide Convention.