Nazanin Noroozi
, 2023
, 6 min
This Bitter Earth is an experimental stop-motion film centered around found footage and archival images from viral news stories juxtaposed with hand painted Super 8 family movie frames. The film encompasses four main image series reconsidered and revisited in multiple: the 2020 downing of Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 by the Iranian government; the devastating…
Maaman Rezaee
, 2015
Minuet for a Disappearance is an experiment to give life to memories of a political prisoner in Iran through drawings on 16mm films and documenting the objects sent to his daughter from the prison.
, 17 min
A Feast in a Mirror explores the enduring sense of otherness experienced by women, both citizens and foreigners, in any country, be it East or West. Years of oppression and the denial of basic rights in Iran evoke rage and shame, yet paradoxically give rise to courage and power. As an Iranian woman, my character embodies…
February 2025
REBEL FLESH Featuring: Rahmaneh Rabani, Yasman Baghban, Nazanin Noroozi, Maaman Rezai, Elahe Esmaeili and Jocelyne SaabCurated by Homa Sarabi Screening Online: February 14 – 23, 2025 RSVP: artearchive.orgAvailable worldwideFREE / $5 suggested donation Screening In-person:Impasse, by Rahmaneh RabaniA Feast in a Mirror, by Yasman BaghbanThis Bitter Earth, by Nazanin Noroozi Followed by a Q&A with Yasman Baghban and Nazanin Noroozi Date: 19…
, 1974
, 26 min
Kuneitra: Death of a City was made by the American Peace Committee to document the UN-commissioned forensic investigation of the atrocities committed by the Israeli Army in the city of Kuneitra in the occupied Golan Heights. Shots of the remnants of destruction of religious sites, graveyards and homes interlace interviews that were made with the town…
Sky Hopinka
, 2021
, 4 min
Hopinka’s video Mnemonics of Shape and Reason (2021) traverses the memory of a place and space visited by the artist. Employing an original syntax of storytelling, the artist interweaves scattered and reassembled landscapes with layers of captured audio, poetic text, and music. A rhythmic account of the spiritual implications of colonial plunder, Hopinka’s fluid reflections…
Coleman Collins
, 2024
, 8 min
Primarily derived from 3D scans of objects, and with a particular focus on digital replicas of West African architectural sites, Specular fiction is a short, speculative narrative video that traces the complex relationships between seemingly dichotomous terms: original and copy; object and image; real and virtual space. In an imagined future of indeterminate distance, the objects of…
Meriem Bennani
, 2017
, 19 min
A playful and moving portrait of some women in Morocco. Evoking reality television, home video, and ethnographic film, its visual language is at once intimate and whimsical, with the director’s digital manipulations by turns amplifying and undermining her subjects’ self-presentations. Bennani’s women discuss love and romance, dating and friendship, loneliness and community, all set against…
Hind Shoufani
, 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…
July 2024
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…
