October 2024
Eltayeb Mahdi, Suliman Elnour, Ibrahim Shaddad
ARAB FILM SERIES PRESENTS Founded in April 1989 by Ibrahim Shaddad, Eltayeb Mahdi and Suliman Elnour, just months before Omar Albashir’s military coup, the Sudanese Film Group (SFG) is a collective of filmmakers with a goal to maintain and develop Sudanese cinema. After returning from their film studies abroad, the members spread their love of cinema through film productions,…
Mary Jirmanus Saba, Tareq Rantisi
, 2023
, 14 min
Synopsis:Assassinated Lebanese intellectual Mahdi Amel — often dubbed “the Arab Gramsci” — famously said: “He who resists is never defeated.” What use is his thought to us today, and what is our responsibility as image makers to Gaza?
Basma al-Sharif
, 2013
, 24 min
Synopsis:Home Movies Gaza introduces us to the Gaza Strip as a microcosm for the failure of civilisation. In an attempt to describe the everyday of a place that struggles for the most basic of human rights, this video claims a perspective from within the domestic spaces of a territory that is complicated, derelict, and altogether…
Arab Loutfi
, 1993
, 25 min
Synopsis:Jamila’s Mirror deals with the memories of Palestinian female guerilla fighters, currently in their forties, who were involved in military operations during their teen years.
, 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…
Sami Al Salamoni
, 1973
, 16 min
Synopsis:Cowboy begins from American cinema, as an exposure of the country’s settler colonial structure and its ability to depict genocidal acts through camera framing. The film, directed by the renowned Egyptian film critic Sami Al-Salamoni, reflects his theoretical critique of Hollywood through heavily edited scenes and shots from mainstream motion pictures. Al-Salamoni manages to take the…
Mustafa Abu Ali
, 13.43 min
Synopsis:A rare film by the legendary filmmaker Mustafa Abu Ali, one of the founders of the Palestine Film Unit, the first filmic arm of the Palestinian revolution. Shot by a French news team, the footage was edited by Mustafa in Lebanon to produce one of the earliest films on the occupied territory in Gaza. Scenes…
Basma al-Sharif, Mary Jirmanus Saba, Sami Al Salamoni, Tareq Rantisi, Mustafa Abu Ali, Arab Loutfi
IMAGES HIJACKING SCREENS FOR LIBERATIONSnapshots Reflecting Palestine (1973-2023) Featuring: Mustafa Abu Ali, Basma al-Sharif, Arab Loutfi, Sami Al Salamoni, Mary Jirmanus Saba, and Tareq Rantisi. Curated by Ali Hussein AlAdawy Screening Online: October 11 – 25, 2024RSVP: artearchive.orgAvailable worldwideFREE / $5 suggested donation In-Person Screening: October 30, 6:45 PMAddress: Weis Cinema, Bard CollegeScreening introduced by Adam Haj Yahia and followed by a Q&A between…
September 2024
Joe Namy, Oraib Toukan, Basma al-Sharif, Emily Jacir, Coleman Collins, Sky Hopinka
ON LANDSCAPES, RUINS AND PATTERNS OF REMEMBERING Featuring work by: Basma AlSharif, Coleman Collins, Sky Hopinka, Emily Jacir, Joe Namy, and Oraib ToukanCurated by Fawz Kabra Screening of Remind me to Remember to Forget, Mnemonics of Shape and Reason, 15 Palestinian Minutes in Palestine, Lydda Airport, Libretto-o-o, Specular fiction, and CAPITALFollowed by Q&A with Emily Jacir and Coleman Collins ON LANDSCAPES, RUINS AND PATTERNS OF REMEMBERING is…
Oraib Toukan
, 2006
, 2 min
A performance video referencing Mahmoud Darwish’s 1982 classic “Memory for Forgetfulness”. Made 18 years ago the work is part of a duology titled Counting Memories following the summer of 2006 when Israel launched a war on both Gaza and Lebanon one month apart. The video reveres the act of writing and the will to remember. In…
