Tareq Khalaf
Tareq Khalaf is a design educator, filmmaker, and cultural activist based in Ramallah, Palestine.
Tareq’s research interest and artistic practice explore the wisdom found in agrarian landscapes and livelihoods. He seeks new narratives and visual forms that express the interlinks between political and environmental crises. He’s exploring how seasonal ways of living and community farming can affirm a sense of belonging and act as spaces of resistance.
Tareq’s work and studies have taken him across Palestine and South Africa, grounding himself in restorative land practices in both geographies. He’s interested in the affinities, sensitivities, and senses of belonging, indigenous and seasonal ways of living. Through his work at Sakiya – Village of Ein Qiniya in Palestine – he is interested in shifting the space of education to rural Palestine, experimenting with different forms of liberatory education that promote collaborative labor, farming, and a renewed connection to local landscapes, knowledge, and stories, drawing on the diversity and seasonality of land as companions for learning.
His latest project, Azziza: In a Cherished Land is a feature documentary that follows the life of his great aunt Azziza over 5 years of footage. The film documents seasonal living amidst rapid urbanisation, a deteriorating political situation in the West-Bank and familial fragmentation. The film tells the story of exile from the perspective of those who remain and investigates the powerful bond that connects people to land and place, recasting ideas of homeland through the intimacies of home.
Residencies include Framer Framed in collaboration with Prince Claus Fund.
