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Tuesday at the Darat
Main Building @ 6:30 pm
Sunday
12/10/2008
Artist talk by Mona Hatoum
An
artist of Palestinian origin, Mona Hatoum received her training
at the Byam Shaw School of Art and the Slade School of Fine
Art in London. Hatoum is an internationally recognized artist
known for her performances and videos of the 1980’s
and for her large scale installations and sculptures which
turn the familiar into uncanny situations that capture the
experience of permanent exile. Hatoum has had solo exhibitions
at such prestigious institutions as the Centre Pompidou, Paris
(1994), The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (1998),
and Tate Britain, London (2000). In 2004, she was awarded
the Roswitha Haftmann Prize and the Sonning Prize. Mona Hatoum
was the first visual arts recipient of the latter, a biannual
prize given by the University of Copenhagen to individuals
who contribute to the "advancement of European civilization."
14/10/2008
Palestinian Art and Art Institutions
A Talk by Salwa Mikdadi
Mikdadi
is an independent curator and art historian whose work spans
over twenty five years in the field of Arab art and museums.
Her publications and exhibitions focus on gender and politics
in art, art by Arab Americans, Palestinian artists, museums
and their visitors, art interpretation, Arab art institutions
and support systems for art production. She is the curator
of the first Palestinian Pavilion for the 2009 Venice Biennial
and is currently working on the concept development for two
Palestinian museums.
21/10/2008
Contemporaneity in
Art of the Arab World
A lecture by Dr. Nada Shabout
Nada Shabout has been an Assistant Professor of Art History
at the University of North Texas since 2002, teaching about
Arab visual culture and Islamic art. Shabout is the curator
of the traveling exhibition "Dafatir: Contemporary Iraqi
Book Art," (2005-2007) and "Moments from 20th Century
Iraqi Art," which was held at the Montalvo Art Center
in California (2007-2008). She is the author of several articles
and publications that examine the legal and ethical responsibilities
of the US in Iraq following its invasion in 2003. Her latest
publication, Modern Arab Art: Formation of Arab Aesthetics
(2007), is considered a valuable study of Arab art from the
1940s to the present. Nada Shabout is, currently, a Fulbright
Scholar who teaches a course on the history of contemporary
Arab art at the University of Jordan in Amman. Lecture is
in Arabic.
Short
Films by Annemarie Jacir
28/10/2008
A few crumbs for the birds
2005 | 28 mins. Film is in Arabic and French with English
subtitles
Like twenty impossibles
2003 | 17 mins.
An Explanation: (and then burn the ashes)
2005 | 6 mins. Film is in English
4/11/2008
Until When…
2004 | 76 mins.
A film produced by Annemarie Jacir and directed by
Dahna Abourahme
Set
during the current Intifada, this documentary follows four
Palestinian families living in Dheisheh Refugee Camp near
Bethlehem. They all talk about their past and discuss the
future with humor, sorrow, frustration, and hope. Until When…
paints an intimate in-depth portrait of Palestinian lives
today. Film is in Arabic with English subtitles.
11, 18, 25/ 11 & 2/ 12 /2008
Screening
of films from the Palestinian Women Filmmakers Under Occupation
Film Festival Curated by Dr. Alia Arasoughly in cooperation
with Shashat. Films are in Arabic with English subtitles
Shashat
is an officially registered NGO in Palestine whose focus is
on women’s cinema and on the social and cultural implications
of women’s representations. Shashat is unique
in its exclusive focus on building the capacity of Palestinian
filmmakers, on constructing networks and partnerships among
the Palestinian filmmaking community, and on connecting this
community with regional and international ones.
http://www.shashat.org
11/11/2008
Part I: Al Intifada
4 Songs for Palestine
2001 | 13 mins. By Nada El-Yassir
This is not Living
2002 | 42 mins. By Alia Arasoughly
Make a Wish
2006 | 12 mins. By Cherien Dabis
A Ball and a Coloring Box
2004 | 22 mins. By Liana Saleh
18/11/2008
Part II: The Invasion
Going for a Ride?
2003 | 15 mins. By Nahed Awwad
The Clothesline
2006 | 14 mins. By Alia Arasoughly
What's Next
2003 | 40 mins. By Ghada Terawi
25/11/2008
Part III: The Wall & Checkpoints
25
Kilometers
2004 | 15 mins. By Nahed Awwad
Good
Morning Qalqilia
2004 | 26 mins. By Dima Abu Ghoush
Happy
Days
2006 | 3 mins. By
Larissa Sansour
Land Confiscation Order
2006 | 10 mins. By
Larissa Sansour
Soup
over Bethlehem
2006 | 9 mins. By Larissa Sansour
2/12/2008
Part
IV: An-Nakba and the Return
All
That Remains
2005 | 52 mins. By Nada El-Yassir
The
Way Back Home
2006 | 33 mins. By Ghada Terawi
6/1/2009
Short Films
Leaving Gaza to Stay
2006 | 27 mins. A film by Hazem Harb and Carla Pagano
Realized
in the Gaza Strip between June 2005 and August 2006, this
documentary film relays the hopes and dreams of the people
of a liberated Gaza: before, during, and after the unilateral
withdrawal of Israel on September 12, 2005. Hazem Harb is
a Palestinian artist who was born in Gaza and who now lives
in Rome, Italy. Harb participated in the summer academy at
Darat al Funun (2001). His works include, to date, painting,
photography, video art, and installation. Carla Pagano is
an Italian scholar of Arabo-Islamic cultures and societies.
She spent five years in Palestine, of which two were in the
Gaza Strip. Film is in Arabic with Italian subtitles.
Jours
Tranquilles en Palestine
1998 | 13 mins. A film by Fouad Elkoury and Sylvian Roumette
A
Lebanese artist, Fouad Elkoury began his artistic career by
photographing Beirut during the civil war, exploring issues
of survival in a war-torn city. Far from being a report of
everyday life, his pictures bear the necessity of withstanding
time. A co-founder of the Arab Image Foundation, Elkoury's
more recent work combines still photography, text and video..Previously
shown on Arte, Jours Tranquilles en Palestine is a film that
sees five Palestinian women – Leila Shahid, Jumana Husseini,
Lena Saleh, Aida Shehade, and Nabila Nashashibi - present
testimonies of their memories of life in Palestine before
1948. [Arabic with French subtitles]
13/1/2009
Interview with Mona Hatoum
2001/2005 | 26 mins.
Film screening and discussion
In
this filmed interview, part of the Eye series, a series of
interview-based profiles of prominent contemporary artists,
Mona Hatoum explores the diverse sources of her work and her
engagement with a wide range of often surprising materials.
Hatoum talks vividly about the centrality of the body to her
installations, and the ways in which her work employs changes
of scale, intimations of restriction and constraint, and contradictory
ideas of attraction and repulsion. Film is in English.
Directors’
Biographies
Alia Arasoughly
A director, researcher and cinema critic, Alia Arasoughly
is the Director General of Shashat and the director and curator
of "Shashat’s Women’s Film Festival"
in Palestine. Arasoughly translated and edited the book Screens
of Life – Critical Film Writing from the Arab World,
which was released in conjunction with a 5-week long festival
celebrating the centennial of Arab cinema that Arasoughly
co-curated and co-directed with the Film Society of Lincoln
Center. Alia Arasoughly has taught and lectured internationally
on issues of post-colonialism, gender and national identity
in Arab cinema.
Nahed Awwad
Nahed Awwad has been working in television and film since
1997. She has taken part in courses and workshops on
TV, communication, and video editing in Canada, Denmark and
in other countries. In 2003 she studied for one year
in the European Film College in Denmark. In 2002 she made
her first film titled Lions, and in 2005 The Fourth Room,
25 mins. She recently completed a new film, 5 Minutes
from my Home.
Ghada Terawi
Born in Beirut in 1972 to a couple of Palestinian militants.
She grew up between Beirut, Tunis and Cairo. She graduated
from the American University of Cairo in 1995. She has
been working in the field of documentary filmmaking since
1998. She produced her first film Staying Alive [Bidna
N`eish] in 2001.
Dima Abu Ghoush
Writer and filmmaker, born in Emwas, a village demolished
in 1967 by the Israelis, now lives in Ramallah. She worked
at Cinema Production Center for three years where she was
involved in film production and scriptwriting in addition
to managing and organizing training projects and events. In
2003 she received her Master’s degree from the University
of Bristol-UK, in Film and TV Production from the University
of Bristol - UK. She worked with several Palestinian
filmmakers and directed several short films herself.
Nada El-Yassir
She has a Ph.D. in the field
of neurophysiology, which she left many years ago .and
professionally trained in documentary cinema in Canada. El-Yassir
presently lives and works in Nazareth.
Larissa Sansour
Born 1973 in Jerusalem, Sansour studied Fine Art in Copenhagen,
London and New York, and earned her MA from New York University.
Her work is interdisciplinary, immersed in the current political
dialogue and utilizes video art, digital photography, experimental
documentary, the book form and the internet. Sansour’s
work has been exhibited worldwide. Her most notable shows
include the Tate Modern in London, UK, the National Museum
of Queen Sofia in Madrid, Spain and a current show at the
Arken Museum of Modern Art in Denmark, the Istanbul Biennial,
Cologne Biennale in Germany and Pusan Biennale in South Korea.
Liana Saleh
Born in Ramallah in 1987. She started her career at an early
age by directing her first short film, A Ball and a Coloring
Box, which won the Best Student Film Award in New York’s
Internation al Independent Film Festival in 2004.
It also received the honor of being the Opening Film at Al-Jazeera
Film Festival, Liana had participated in many cinematic workshops
in Germany, France and Jordan. Currently, she lives in Paris,
where she is pursuing her studies in film directing.
Annemarie Jacir
Jacri has been working in independent film since 1994 and
has written, directed and produced a number of films including
‘a post oslo history’ (1998), ‘The Satellite
Shooters’ (2001) and ‘like twenty impossibles’
(2003). She has taught courses at Birzeit University and Columbia
University. Jacir also works as a freelance editor and cinematographer.
In 2008, she wrote and directed her first feature film ‘Salt
of this Sea,’ which was her second work to debut at
the Cannes Film Festival. Having been banned from returning
to Palestine, she now lives in Amman, Jordan.
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"Dar Khalid"
A museum of images reflecting
Khalid Shoman's life and legacy.
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Ramadan: 10am - 3pm
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