Akram Zaatari
, 2011
, 12 min
Synopsis; An intense conversation between two people one evening leads to a pictorial love story about loss and longing. An homage to Eric Rohmer and the attention he paid to the tiny details of everyday life. An eternal story of love and separation.
January 2024
İz Öztat, Ra, Şükran Moral, Deniz Pasha, Ardıl Yalınkılıç, Nadir Sönmez, Akram Zaatari
SELF-ORIENTATIONS Online Screening: January 11-21, 2024RSVP at artearchive.orgFree / $5 suggested donation In-person Screening: Saturday, January 13 at 3:00pmKatarina Otto-Bernstein Screening Room, Lenfest Center for the Arts615 West 129th Street, NY NY 10027 To register for the in-person screening please use the link:https://www.showclix.com/event/self-orientations SELF-ORIENTATIONS brings together artists from Turkey and Lebanon whose moving image works incorporate queer & feminist…
, 2012
, 32 min
In 1998, Zaatari interviewed Egyptian photographer Van Leo in Cairo. In 2001 he made the video Her + Him VAN LEO and based it on the story of a woman who once entered Studio Van Leo and asked the artist to take pictures of her naked. At the time, Zaatari had access to a few of the…
October 2022
Meyar Al Roumi, Hisham Bizri, Akram Zaatari, Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige
WHAT EXISTED YESTERDAY MIGHT DISAPPEAR TOMORROW Curated by Hind Mezaina The past haunts the present in this film program about photography and cinema, featuring four short films by Hisham Bizri, Akram Zaatari, Meyar Al Roumi, and Joana Hadjithomas/Khalil Joriege. These films delve into a distant or recent past and their consequences today on what was and what could…
November 2021
Akram Zaatari, Emily Jacir, Mona Benyamin
Ib’atli Gawab / Signed, Sealed, Delivered: On longing and political resistance through epistolary forms in four essay-films. Inspired by two love songs—Sabah Fakhri’s Ib’atli Gawab (Arabic for “send an answer my way”) and Stevie Wonder’s Signed, Sealed, Delivered—this program explores the affective and political potential of letter-writing and other epistolary forms through four films by Mona Benyamin, Emily…
