Ibrahim Shaddad
, 1985
, 32 min
Al Habil (The Rope) is a surrealist film shot with 16mm real that documents two blind men making their way through the desert accompanied by a donkey. Connected by a rope, at times it is the two men who direct the donkey, and at others, it is the donkey who leads the men through the…
October 2024
Mary Jirmanus Saba, Sami Al Salamoni, Tareq Rantisi, Mustafa Abu Ali, Arab Loutfi, Basma al-Sharif
IMAGES HIJACKING SCREENS FOR LIBERATIONSnapshots Reflecting Palestine (1973-2023) Featuring: Mustafa Abu Ali, Basma al-Sharif, Arab Loutfi, Sami Al Salamoni, Mary Jirmanus Saba, and Tareq Rantisi. Curated by Ali Hussein AlAdawy Screening Online: October 11 – 25, 2024RSVP: artearchive.orgAvailable worldwideFREE / $5 suggested donation In-Person Screening: October 30, 6:45 PMAddress: Weis Cinema, Bard CollegeScreening introduced by Adam Haj Yahia and followed by a Q&A between…
Oraib Toukan
, 2006
, 2 min
A performance video referencing Mahmoud Darwish’s 1982 classic “Memory for Forgetfulness”. Made 18 years ago the work is part of a duology titled Counting Memories following the summer of 2006 when Israel launched a war on both Gaza and Lebanon one month apart. The video reveres the act of writing and the will to remember. In…
Mohammad Malas
, 1984
, 120 min
Synopsis: When his father dies, Dib, his younger brother and their mother (Yasmine Khlat) move away from their hometown Quneitra to Damascus. The mother’s despotic father reluctantly takes them in and tries to force the mother to remarry. Overwhelmed by the magic of the city, Dib wants to discover everything and is full of dreams but…
Ossama Mohammed
, 2014
, 94 min
Synopsis: In Syria, every day, YouTubers film then die; others kill then film. In Paris, driven by my inexhaustible love for Syria, I find that I can only film the sky and edit the footage posted. From within the tension between my estrangement in France and the revolution, an encounter happened. A young Kurdish woman from…
Mona Benyamin
, 2020
, 17 min
Synopsis: Moonscape is a short film that takes the form of a music video for a ballad/middle-of-the-road song, performed as a duet between a male and female singer, in Arabic. The song traces the story of a man called Dennis M. Hope, who claimed ownership of the Moon in 1980 and thus founded the Lunar Embassy…
Mary Jirmanus Saba
, 2017
, 99 min
In her directorial debut, Mary Jirmanus Saba deals with a forgotten revolution, saving from oblivion bloodily suppressed strikes at Lebanese tobacco and chocolate factories. These events from the 1970s, which held the promise of a popular revolution and, with it, of women’s emancipation, were erased from collective memory by the country’s civil wars. Rich in…
Assia Djebar
, 1977
, 115 min
“This classic film from acclaimed novelist and filmmaker Assia Djebar is essential viewing for an understanding of women in Algeria. Taking its title and structure from the ‘Nouba,’ a traditional song of five movements, this haunting film mingles narrative and documentary styles to document the creation of women’s personal and cultural histories. Returning to her…
Mohamed Soueid
, 170 min
Soueid’s magnus opus, a gargantuan flux that is both timeless and multi-temporal, THE INSOMNIA OF A SERIAL DREAMER amalgamates the past into the present (“a present in the past tense”), and from the schizophrenic streets of Beirut opens onto the world: the world that a Middle East Airlines captain has traveled and now remembers from his patio…
, 2008
, 87 min
Through the story of a son reconstructing his father’s revolutionary past from a diary, Soueid draws a portrait of two generations of men, fathers and sons, who were revolutionaries of the 1970s. This is a poetic flight in time, back to when young men dreamed of changing the world with their own hands, and forward…
