Women* Health Justice
Unsettled Earth: Like An Event In A Dream Dreamt By Another
Workshop with Firas Shehadeh
13. February 2026
18.00-21.00
18.00-21.00
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for adults
in German/in English
Like an Event in a Dream Dreamt by Another (2023–2025) is a film series that examines role-playing video games as sites where colonial power, technology, and lived reality overlap.
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Across its three iterations, Palestinian players and modders transform the open world of Grand Theft Auto V into a contested space, rehearsing survival, resistance, and worldbuilding under an ongoing settler-colonial regime.
The workshop will feature a screening and presentation of Like an Event in a Dream Dreamt by Another—Rehearsal (2023), Insomnia (2025), and Dreamcore (2025). Together, the works open onto questions of the politics of video games and third cinema; digitality and imagination; dreams and nightmares; player and developer; native and settler.
Firas Shehadeh is a Palestinian artist. His work explores worldbuilding, meaning, aesthetics, and identity. His practice investigates the post-colonial condition through the lens of technology, history, digitality and speculative realities. Working across film, video and sound, Shehadeh conducts a sustained inquiry into the ways narratives and identities are constructed, contested, and mediated within contemporary society. He holds a Master of Fine Arts from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
