Inna Sahakyan
, 2022
, 78 min
A genocide survivor becomes a silent movie star: Aurora Mardiganian’s odyssey is close to unreal. After losing her family, escaping slavery, and enduring Hollywood greed, she journeys far to tell the world of the Armenian Genocide.
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…
Ayçe Kartal
, 2017
, 8 min
S., 8 years old, is a little Turkish girl with an overflowing imagination. She is keen on nature and animals. While she is looking back on the good old days in her grandparents’ village from a hospital room, dark and terrifying memories emerge and, little by little, begin to make sense.
January 2024
İz Öztat, Ra, Şükran Moral, Deniz Pasha, Ardıl Yalınkılıç, Nadir Sönmez, Akram Zaatari
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…
İz Öztat, Ra
, 13 min
In the ongoing body of work titled Every Name in history is I and I is Other, İz Öztat fabricates the (auto)biography of Zişan (1894-1970), who appears to her as a historical figure, a ghost, and an alter ego. She takes on Zişan’s archives and interprets them through her practice to propose a complex temporality where…
Şükran Moral
, 1997
Bordello is a documentation of performance Şükran Moral did in 1997 in one of the small brothels in Istanbul. With self-confidence, she dons a nightgown and poses with a cigarette between red nails, offers herself for sale and uses this provocative gesture of self-determination to put off every potential client. At the same time she takes a…
Nadir Sönmez
Boran is a video work originally created for actor and director Nadir Sönmez’s lecture performance titled Diyarbakır.Tourism.Romanticism.Activism. Nadir Sönmez, an Istanbul-born and based artist, theater director, and actor, embarked on a journey to Diyarbakır with a European grant to delve into the recent local histories of the LGBTI+ struggle. During his exploration, he discovered Kurdish literature, engaging in…
July 2023
Nadia Shihab, Yto Barrada, Firouzeh Khosrovani
FAMILY PORTRAIT presents a compelling program of personal works by filmmakers who courageously turn the lens on their own families, revealing the resulting fractures that shape the fabric of their personal identities. Through these films, the filmmakers embark on a journey of excavation, unearthing their family histories and sharing intimate narratives that illuminate the interplay…
Nadia Shihab
, 2021
Echolocation is a film of voices distant and nearby: the rain in Oakland, my grandmother’s home in Baghdad, my aunts’ voices in What’s App, my daughter learning to count to 10, my brother playing the darbuka, the cicadas in Texas, the walls of my studio. As fragments resonate and accumulate, spaces of loss are subsumed…
