Hadi Afarideh
, 2008
, 34 min
Naqali (Musical Narration) is an Iranian traditional solo theatre in which only men are allowed to perform. As a matter of fact, it’s been forbidden for women to appear in a Naqali performance. The place for this theatre has usually been teahouses & public squares. A Naqali play is called a Scroll. The Scrolls are…
Reza Sayah
, 2018
, 30 min
Comeback is the story of the return of the Iranian National Polo team to the international stage Iranian polo team. Iran is the birthplace of polo but soon after the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the sport all but disappeared in Iran. Comeback documents the history of polo in Iran, its near demise, and eventually, Iran’s return…
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
, 2022
, 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
, 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
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…
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…
Julia Bacha
, 2021
, 94 min
Synopsis: When a news publisher in Arkansas, an attorney in Arizona, and a speech therapist in Texas are told they must choose between their jobs and their political beliefs, they launch legal battles that expose an attack on freedom of speech across 36 states in America. Boycott traces the impact of state legislation designed to…
