Tomorrow, again
Mona Benyamin
2023

Tomorrow, again stages a dysfunctional news broadcast consisting of different segments which recreate and react to various prominent daily catastrophes from Palestine. Instead of a spoken narrative, the film resorts to exaggerated emotional and physical displays, and utilises fragmented and often conflicting testimonies, doppelgängers, and a surrealist visual language to appeal to notions of truth and fiction, and different temporalities.

The cast of the film sees two protagonists, the artist’s parents, assume multiple identities – from presenters to reportage subjects, to eyewitnesses – resulting in a mobius loop where they are the objects, the spectators, and the medium, who narrate and consume their own stories in an endless cycle. It explores the phenomena of mutism resultant from trauma, and the cognitive distortions which come from living in a constant state of emergency; and what happens to urgency when it becomes timeless.

Tomorrow, again was commissioned by The Mosaic Rooms/A.M. Qattan Foundation, 2023.
With support from Arts Council England and Bagri Foundation.
The work was completed in September 2023, a month before Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza began. It is presented in loving memory of Boulos Benyamin.

Mona Benyamin (b. 1997, Haifa, Palestine) is a visual artist, filmmaker, and cellist who lives and works between Palestine and the Hudson Valley, New York. Her multidisciplinary practice explores intergenerational experiences of dispossession and the ways memory is constructed, transmitted, and reframed across time. Focusing on the intersections of experience and witnessing, trauma, and temporal awareness, she reworks mass-media formats through appropriation, manipulation, and dark humor. Often involving her parents as both subjects and collaborators, Benyamin creates cinematic works where surrealism and hyperrealism converge, offering reflections on belonging, the limits of language, and the politics of representation.