The Flowers Stand Silently Witnessing: Masterclass and Screening with filmmaker Theo Panagopoulos, Fri 7th March, @1pm

25 Feb 2025

In this masterclass, filmmaker Theo Panagopoulos will guide us through his process of reclaiming archival footage of Palestinian wild flowers, made in the 1930s and 1940s by a Scottish missionary who had decided to film the floral splendour of the Holy Land.

The result is a tender film essay, The Flowers Stand Silently Witnessing, that questions the role of image-making as a tool of both testimony and violence when connected to entanglements between people and the land.

Theo Panagopoulos is a Greek-Lebanese-Palestinian filmmaker and PhD researcher based in Scotland. His creative and academic work explore themes of collective memory, displacement, fragmented identities and archives.

His most recent film, The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing (2024), was commissioned by the Scottish Documentary Institute and had its World Premiere at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. The film has gone on to win Best Short Film at IDFA 2024, the Grand Jury Prize for Best Short Film at Sundance 2025, and also was BAFTA nominated.

Friday 7th March, 13:00 - 15:00

Film and Screen Media Auditorium, Kane Building B10B