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Tuesday at the Darat
Main Building @ 6:30 pm
11/03/2008
Now and Then, Here and There: Visual Art and Critical Practice
in Contemporary Beirut
A talk by
Kaelen Wilson-Goldie [in English]
Kaelen
Wilson-Goldie is a writer based in Beirut and the former editor
of the arts and culture page of The Daily Star in Lebanon. Born
in 1975, she holds an MS from the Columbia University Graduate
School of Journalism and an MA from the Centre for Arab and
Middle Eastern Studies at the American University of Beirut. She
contributes regularly to the magazines Artforum and Bidoun, and
has written stories for The New York Times, The Times of London,
Variety, Sight & Sound, and The Village Voice, among other
publications. In addition,Kaelen has worked on a number of
essays for books, catalogues and journals on visual art in the
Arab world.
18, 25/03/2008
We are Here: Short Videos from Lebanon
A touring exhibition of videos curated by Rasha Salti and
organized by ArteEast (www.arteeast.org). ArteEast is a
non-profit organization which was established in 2003 by a group
of film programmers, filmmakers, artists, and educators to
promote the visibility of the arts and cultures of the Middle
East in the United States through collaborative projects with
universities, community groups, museums and cultural
institutions.
In the past
few years digital video technology has been credited with
quietly generating a revolution in film production. During the
summer 2006 Israeli assault on Lebanon, it allowed filmmakers,
artists and activists to record what they were witnessing and
experiencing and offered a forum to create work directly related
to the war. The touring collection “We are Here” attests to the
amazing diversity of approach, genre and talent in how artists
and filmmakers reacted to the war.
18/03/2008
We are Here: Short Videos from Lebanon
To the Lebanese Citizens
by Ali Cherry
| 2006 | 2 min.
Lebanon/War: Dailies of the War
by Rania Stephan | 2006 | 47 min.
Tank You
by Ziad Antar
| 2006 | 12
min.
No Connection
by Myriam Sassine
| 2006 | 10
min.
25/03/2008
We are Here: Short Videos from Lebanon
In-Between
by Nadine Ghanem
| 2006 | 10 min.
Breaking News
by Hisham Jaber
| 2006 | 10 min.
You Can Come In
by Mahmoud Hojeij
| 2007 | 23 min.
Slippage
by Ali Cherri
| 2007 | 12 min.
Merely a Smell
by Maher Abi Samra | 2007 | 7 min.
1, 8,
15/04/2008
Films by Akram Zaatari
Some of these
films will be shown as part of the program curated by the artist
for the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (May 2008).
Born in
Lebanon in 1966, Akram Zaatari is a video artist and curator who
lives and works in Beirut. In addition to his experiences in
television and teaching, he is the author of more than 30 videos
and video installations. Zaatari is a co-founder of the Arab
Image Foundation (Beirut) through which he has developed his
recent research-based work on the photographic history of the
Middle East; this work has been the basis of a series of
exhibitions and publications. Zaatari has also written texts for
scholarly journals such as Third Text, Bomb, Framework,
Transition, and Parachute. He is a regular contributor to Zawaya.
1/4/2008
This Day
| 2003 | 86
min.
The feature
length documentary “This Day” uses as its starting point
archival images, from portraits of Bedouins in the desert to war
era Beirut, to ruminate on the photograph's ability to convey
truth. [English/Arabic with English Subtitles]
8/4/2008
In This House
| 2005 | 30 min.
All is Well on the Border
| 1997 | 43 min.
Nature Morte
| 2008 | 11 min.
15/4/2008
Video in 5 Movements
| 2006 | 8 min.
Her + Him Van
Leo
| 2001 | 32 min.
20/04/2008
Beirut Diaries: Truth, Lies, and Videos | 2006 | 79 min.
A film
by Mai Masri
Through the
story of a young woman from Beirut and the turbulent
experiences, dreams and disillusions of her young friends, the
film explores the critical transformations and crucial questions
facing Lebanon in the troubled period following the
assassination of Prime Minister Rafic Hariri leading up to the
massive Israeli attack on Lebanon in July 2006. [Arabic with
English Subtitles]
Wednesday 30/04/2008
Al Balad Theatre @ 7:30 pm
Make Me Stop
Smoking
A performance by
Rabih Mroué
Mroué’s practice questions the definitions of theatre and the
relationship between space and the form of a performance. His
semi-documentary works use documents, photographs and found
objects to draw attention to the broader political and economic
contexts of contemporary Beirut.
Born in Beirut
in 1967, Rabih Mroué studied theatre at the University of
Lebanon in Beirut. Mroué started to produce his own plays and
video performances in 1990. He has acted in, directed and
co-directed several plays, videos and mixed-media performances,
among which are: L’Abat-jour (1990); The Elevator (1993);
Extension 19 (1997); Come in Sir, We Will Wait for You Outside
(1998); Three Posters (2000), The Red Dead Zone (2000), and Face
A/Face B (2001). Since 1995 he has been working at Future TV
where has directed a number of animated films and documentaries.
6, 13/ 05/2008
Films Commemorating the 60th Anniversary of the Nakba
6/05/2008
The Iron Wall
| 2006 | 58 min.
A film by
Mohammed Alatar
The Iron Wall
exposes the phenomenon of settlements in the West Bank and Gaza;
it traces a timeline of their development, examining the impact
that they have had on the peace process. The documentary film
also touches on the latest project to make the settlements a
permanent fact on the ground- the wall that Israel has been
building in the West Bank and the disruption it has incurred on
daily life in Palestine. [English and Arabic with English
Subtitles]
13/05/2008
Occupation 101
| 2007 | 90
min.
A
film by Sufian Omeish & Abdulla Omeish
A through and
powerful documentary film on the historical and current root
causes of the Palestinian/Israeli conflict. The film presents a
comprehensive analysis of the facts as well as the hidden truths
surrounding the controversial topic. Occupation 101 has received
8 film festival awards. [English/Arabic with English Subtitles]
20/05/2008
The Withdrawal of Tradition Past a Surpassing Disaster
A lecture by Jalal Toufic
[in English]
“We live in a
block universe of space-time, where nothing physically passes
and vanishes, but where occasionally things withdraw due to
surpassing disasters. Palestinians, Kurds, and Bosnians have to
deal with not only the concerted erasure by their enemies of
much of their tradition but also the additional, more insidious
withdrawal of what survived the physical destruction. After the
surpassing disaster, the duty of an artist is either to '
resurrect what has been withdrawn" or to "disclose the
withdrawal." Jalal Toufic
Jalal Toufic
is a thinker, writer, and artist. He is the author of Distracted
(1991; 2nd ed., 2003), (Vampires): An Uneasy Essay on the Undead
in Film (1993; 2nd ed., 2003), Over-Sensitivity (1996),
Forthcoming (2000), Undying Love, or Love Dies (2002), Two or
Three Things I’m Dying to Tell You (2005), ‘Âshûrâ’: This Blood
Spilled in My Veins (2005), and Undeserving Lebanon (2007). His
videos and mixed-media works have been presented at such venues
as Artists Space, New York; ICA, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris;
Witte de With, Rotterdam; Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona;
Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel; and the 16th International
Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) as part of a
retrospective program entitled “Focus Jalal Toufic”. He has
taught at the University of California at Berkeley, the
California Institute of the Arts, USC, and the Rijksakademie,
and is currently a Professor at Kadir Has University in
Istanbul.
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