November 2022
Saeed Dehghani, Shadi Harouni, Daniel Asadi Faezi, Farnaz Jurabchian, Mohammadreza Jurabchian, Elham Hosseinzadeh
AT THE DISPOSAL OF HUMANITY Curated by Lila Nazemian, ArteEast Special Projects Curator Featuring works by Shadi Harouni, Daniel Asadi Faezi, Farnaz and Mohammadreza Jurabchian, Elham Hosseinzadeh, and Saeed Dehghani. AT THE DISPOSAL OF HUMANITY presents films made in the past two decades that share perspectives from communities on the periphery of contemporary Iranian society. With…
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…
September 2022
Maher Abi Samra, Marwa Arsanios, Jumana Manna, Christian Ghazi
SOCIAL STUDIES features works by Maher Abi Samra, Marwa Arsanios, Christian Ghazi & Jumana Manna. This program presents Christian Ghazi’s 1969 film A Hundred Faces for a Single Day in conversation with three films from Lebanon and Palestine made between 2008 and 2016. Ghazi’s avant-garde cinematic manifesto captures a society at the cusp between Lebanon’s so-called Golden Age and…
August 2022
Kaya Behkalam, Azin Feizabadi, Arvand Dashtaray
REHEARSING REALITY showcases a selection of films that blend fact and fiction, blurring the line between the staged and the improvised. Featuring works by Azin Feizabadi /Kaya Behkalam, and Arvand Dashtaray. This program is co-presented by ArteEast and Rooftop Films. This series is part of the legacy program Unpacking the ArteArchive, which preserves and presents over 17 years of film and video programming by ArteEast. In…
July 2022
Marwa Arsanios, Ahmad Ghossein, Ghassan Halwani
This selection of films draws from ArteEast’s ArteArchive to explore the notion of absence–that which is erased, missing or forgotten–as a central theme in the works of Lebanese filmmakers Marwa Arsanios, Ahmad Ghossein, and Ghassan Halwani Both Marwa Arsanios and Ghassan Halwani use animation as a means to render that which is invisible visible, while Halwani also uses…
June 2022
Annemarie, Enas I. Al-Muthaffar, Nahed Awwad, Ayreen Anastas, Larissa Sansour
The Second Intifada heralded a particularly fresh, urgent and experimental approach to filmmaking, in tune with the uprisings to which they contributed. Working at a distance from both the main political organizations and, often, the aesthetic insistences of Global Northern art cinema funding, filmmakers took advantage of accessible technologies to forge new notions of freedom. The prolific…
April 2022
Setareh Shahbazi, Yto Barrada, Malak Helmy, Lara Baladi, Marianne Fahmy, Maha Maamoun
Monuments & Flowers Curated by Regine Basha Monuments & Flowers brings together a selection of seminal video work by women artists culled from the archives of ArteEast with the work of contemporary voices including Yto Barrada, Lara Baladi, Marianne Fahmy, Malak Helmy Maha Maamoun and Setareh Shahbazi with Mirene Arsanios. How do we reflect upon…
March 2022
Mohamed Soueid
Mohamed Soueid came of age in the Beirut of the early 1970s, when over forty movie theaters were operating in the Lebanese capital, offering lovers of cinema something possibly unique in terms of geo-artistic variety. Not only could Lebanese moviegoers watch the latest European and American films, both arthouse and commercial, but thanks to very…
February 2022
Assia Djebar
South West Asia and North Africa, there are historical records of women’s cinema since the 1920s. However, a lack of state funding for archival projects, as well as factors such as conflict and war, mean that we often watch these films through reading about them. The films themselves are inaccessible, or more often damaged or…
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…
