About the Film

Happy Days exposes everyday Palestinian life under Israeli occupation. In the video, a collage of footage shot on location in the occupied territories is accompanied by the theme music from the 70s sitcom Happy Days.

The idea is to subjugate international politics to a format normally associated with entertainment and thereby call attention to the blurry boundary between the two.

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Larissa Sansour

Born in Jerusalem, Larissa Sansour studied Fine Art in Copenhagen, London and New York. Her work is interdisciplinary, immersed in the current political dialogue and utilises video art, photography, experimental documentary, the book form and the internet.

Larissa Sansour -- 3’ (Palestine: 2006)