Nadir Sönmez
, 2022
, 13 min
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…
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…
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…
İz Öztat, Ra
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
, 8 min
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…
Deniz Pasha
, 2023
, 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
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…
September 2023
Basma al-Sharif, Suneil Sanzgiri, Pegah Pasalar, Mounira Al Solh
EVERYWHERE WAS THE SAMEFeaturing Pegah Pasalar, Mounira Al Solh, Basma al-Sharif, Suneil Sanzgiri, and Mirene Arsanios In-person Sep 12, 2023 screening:at e-flux Screening Room at 7 pm ETScreening will be followed by a conversation with filmmakers Pegah Pasalar and Suneil Sanzgiri moderated by writer Mirene Arsanios.Address: 172 Classon Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11205Get Tickets here Online Screening:…
Pegah Pasalar
My childhood was marked by documentations of a lot of firsts. My family, sharing my aunt’s lone mini-DV camcorder among their whole big group, has decided what the pivotal moments to be captured for me were. I have often asked myself, “Who were they capturing these moments for?” Remembering my grandfather’s ID, with no birthdate…
Mounira Al Solh
, 2019
, 43 min
The artist spent 24 hours with each of four women—Rogine, Waad, Hanin, and Zeina—in the cities where they now live: Zutphen, Oslo, Washington DC, and Sharjah respectively. All four of them cannot live anymore in their countries of origin, Syria and Lebanon. Together, they share a moment of cooking, rolling on the floors of their…
