Hasan Everywhere

They were young, talented and free in New York. Dorit Rabinyan was an Israeli novelist and Hassan Hourani was a Palestinian artist. Their passionate friendship, impossible at home, flourished abroad…

The film explores the brief but passionate friendship of an Israeli writer and a Palestinian artist, both exiles during a freezing New York winter. The style of the narrative is inspired by the writer, Dorit Rabinyan, a deeply prosaic and visually evocative language that provides the voice of the story. The animation is in part adapted from the rich illustrative style of the artist, Hassan Hourani. In contrasting the lonely voice of the writer with the warm, imaginative landscapes of the artist these drawings become oases of colour in a grey, icy and alien land. Through them the friends find portals of escape to a Levantine dream-world.

Format: 1 x 6’

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What People are Saying

“Hasan Everywhere is a beautifully executed animation with an excellent story that is both gripping and haunting…the project’s creativity and craft shone through and bespeaks a creator in high command of their craft.” Judging Panel of the 2010 Digital Media Awards.

Read The Guardian article that inspired Hasan Everywhere.