Early in her career, the artist Larissa Sansour used to make documentaries about Palestine. She stopped creating these photojournalistic films when viewers assumed she was projecting her own bias onto the narratives, finding the realities of Palestinian life under occupation too surreal to be reality. In response, Sansour turned to science fiction, leaning into its inherent uncanny nature and the “language” of colonial imposition to flip the narrative history of occupation—changing the depictions of Palestinians from victims into future revolutionaries. This presentation argues that Sansour creates dystopian futures wherein Palestinians subvert the visual structures of colonialism as a revolutionary act. In Nation Estate (2013), Sansour imagines a future where Palestine has been reinvented as a vertical high-rise building. Each floor of the building stands in for a city/site of significance. While this future Palestine is restricted to verticality, it allows Palestinians access to, at least a simulacrum of, places the occupation has long since denied to them. Additionally, the video’s main character, played by Sansour herself, is pregnant. The feminine power embodied in her perpetuation of the Palestinian lineage serves as a gendered resistance to the typically masculine characterization of violent military and colonial occupation. In another dystopian video work, In the Future They Ate From the Finest Porcelain (2016), Sansour subverts the colonial instrumentalization of archeology to establish future-historical narratives of ethno-national connections to the land through a imagined female-led resistance group that deposits fabricated “artifacts” throughout Palestine. In the future, when the artifacts are dug up, speculative narratives about the people who used them, and their ties to the historic landscape, can be used to rewrite contemporary realities of their descendants. In both projects, Sansour utilizes the surreal nature of science fiction imaginings to call attention to the historic structures maintaining occupation and thereby manipulate them to revolutionize the future.