February 2024
Gelareh Kiazand, Bahman Kiarostami, Hadi Afarideh, Reza Sayah
REFLECTIONS FROM THE FUTURE Featuring films by Hadi Afarideh, Bahman Kiarostami, Gelareh Kiazand and Reza Sayah.Curated by Lila Nazemian, ArteEast Programs and Communications Director Online Screening: February 25-March 5, 2024RSVP at artearchive.orgFree / $5 suggested donation In-person Screening: Thursday, February 29 at 7:00pmUnionDocs352 Onderdonk Ave, Queens, NY 11385$15 For tickets to the in-person screening please use the link:…
Gelareh Kiazand
, 2023
, 27 min
In the era of food sustainability, Hanif Sadr, an engineer turned chef from Tehran, Iran, has opened his first Iranian regional restaurant in San Francisco, USA. He delved into the farm-to-table gastronomy world after working as a cook for a Montessori school in Berkley. His mission is to introduce the regional and seasonal recipes of…
January 2024
Ra, Şükran Moral, Deniz Pasha, Ardıl Yalınkılıç, Nadir Sönmez, Akram Zaatari, İz Öztat
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…
Akram Zaatari
, 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…
Deniz Pasha
, 17 min
In this desktop-film, the Sudanese Turkish artist, Deniz Pasha, together with her friends Jazmine Mussington and Mario Lamar, looks at the Western orientalist-style depictions of the Ottoman harem and visually analyzes the black people’s representations, who are mostly left in shadow, covered, and unidentifiable. On the computer screen page of Photoshop, as an act to…
Ardıl Yalınkılıç
, 2018
, 8 min
The Gaze is a video by the artist Ardıl Yalınkılıç based on a series of interviews he conducted in The Hague during his exchange study. He invited six white fellow art students from different European countries to participate in the interview and he asked them to answer his questions pretending to be himself. The only things…
Julia Bacha
, 2017
, 76 min
Synopsis: When a nation-wide uprising breaks out in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, a young woman in Gaza must make a choice between love, family, and freedom. Undaunted, she embraces all three, joining a clandestine network of women in a movement that forces the world to recognize the Palestinian right to self-determination for the first time. Naila and…
Assem Hendawi
, 2022
Synopsis: Everything Under Heaven is a poignant journey through Egypt’s history, encapsulating time as a flux between the old and the new, converging the past and the future. The narrative focuses on the post-1952 era, where a newly formed state seeks to establish itself through grand infrastructural projects that reflect its national cosmology. However, as it…
September 2023
Larissa Sansour, Marwa Benhalim, Alia Yunis
Screening Online: Sept 27-Oct 1RSVP: arabfilmseries.org Free with RSVP / $5 suggested donationAvailable Worldwide THERE IS SALT AND BREAD BETWEEN US presents a selection of films by Larissa Sansour, Youmna Chlala, Alia Yunis, Andrea Nones-Kobiakov, and Marwa Benhalim. The films are centered around the theme of food, which is employed as a vehicle to explore political and cultural narratives. Trespass…
Alia Yunis
, 2019
, 85 min
The Golden Harvest is a 6,000-year old love story in which the filmmaker tries to understand the profound, often troubled, relationship between olive trees and the people of Mediterranean, including Palestinian father.
