Ghassan Halwani
, 2018
, 76 min
Thirty-five years ago, I witnessed the kidnapping of a man I know. He has disappeared since. Ten years ago, I caught a glimpse of his face while walking in the street, but I wasn’t sure it was him. Parts of his face were torn off, but his features had remained unchanged since the incident. Yet something was…
Ahmad Ghossein
, 2011
, 32 min
Maream is the mother of four kids. Her husband Rachid worked abroad for more than 10 years. From 1978 -1988, she corresponded with her husband by sending cassettes with people traveling. The cassettes provide intimate and personal details of how a relationship evolves between a couple through the passing of time, and also how a…
Marwa Arsanios
, 2009
, 12 min
This video, which includes 2D animation, brings together different stories about the chalet Raja Saab, a 1950’s experimental architecture, attempting to investigate and re-stage the disappearance of a dancer from the Crazy Horse Saloon in Beirut. It is part of the research on Acapulco, a once very hip beach resort situated in the southern outskirts…
Christian Ghazi
, 1969
, 63 min
Made in 1969 and released in 1972, Christian Ghazi’s incendiary, avant-garde masterpiece is one of the filmmaker’s only two surviving early works. Through this fiction documentary hybrid film, Ghazi forged a stinging critique of bourgeois society in Beirut during Lebanon’s Golden Age (which would end in 1975 with a grueling and protracted civil war). An…
Jumana Manna
, 2010
, 21 min
Blessed Blessed Oblivion weaves together a portrait of masculine performativity in East Jerusalem, manifested in gyms, auto body shops, and hairdressing parlors. Inspired by Kenneth Anger’s Scorpio Rising (1963), the video uses visual collage and music as ironic commentary. Anger’s subjects—leather-clad bikers—serve as a counterpoint to the culture Manna attempts to portray, that of male “thug” culture in East Jerusalem. Simultaneously…
, 2008
, 5 min
Built by Polish architect Karol Schayer in 1957, the iconic Carlton Hotel was, in its time, a popular meeting place for gay men in Beirut. Between 1973 and 1993, the hotel was also the setting of three murders that might or might not have been related to sexual encounters. Among the victims of these (probably) passionate…
July 2024
Hind Shoufani
Join us for this month’s Arab FIlm Series online feature film: Trip Along Exodus: a personal, political and poetic documentary by Palestinian poet and filmmaker Hind Shoufani! Screening Online: July 8 – 18, 2024RSVP: arabfilmseries.orgFREE / $5 suggested donationAvailable Worldwide Trip Along Exodus, Hind Shoufani, Syria/ Lebanon/ US/ Palestine, 2015, 120 min. Arabic and English with Arabic/English Subtitles Trip…
, 2015
, 120 min
Trip Along Exodus is a film/poem that recreates the last 70 years of Palestinian and Arab politics seen through the prism of the life of the filmmaker’s father, Dr. Elias Shoufani, a leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, an academic and leftist intellectual who was one of the instigators of the opposition to Arafat within Fatah…
Sherko Abbas
, 2021
, 23 min
The film explores the role of music in the Iraq War, particularly the U.S. government’s use of music as a tool of propaganda. Using a variety of news footage, as well as archival footage shot by Abass’ sister, a cellist in the Iraqi National Symphony Orchestra, the film demonstrates how in 2003, the US administration,…
May 2024
Sarah Saidan, Sofia El Khyari, Huda Razzak, Ayçe Kartal, Mahmoud Hamdi
Featuring: Sofia El Khyari, Mahmoud Hamdi, Ayçe Kartal, Huda Razzak, Inna Sahakyan and Sarah Saidan.Curated by Lila Nazemian Online screening: May 7 – 19RSVP: artearchive.orgShorts Available worldwide, Aurora’s Sunrise available in the U.S.FREE / $5 suggested donation In-person Screenings: Date: Thursday, May 9Inna Sahakian’s Aurora’s SunriseAtamian Hovsepian Curatorial PracticeAddress: 227 E 24th St, New YorkTicket Price: $5Link to Tickets Here…
