October 2022
Hisham Bizri, Akram Zaatari, Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, Meyar Al Roumi
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…
Hisham Bizri
, 2006
, 21 min
“Unlike most cinephiles, I’ve never been interested in the cult of the actress – or actor – until Hisham Bizri rendered actress-fascination palpable, even for me, in his “Asmahan”. Reediting a 1944 Egyptian film starring this liberated-for-her-era Syrian actress-singer to center his 21-minute film poem around her, Bizri replaces the original narrative with sequences that…
