Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige
, 2003
, 43 min
It all began with an e-mail: On May 22, 2000 a print of our first feature film, Around the Pink House, disappeared in Yemen under strange circumstances. It was a historic day, the tenth anniversary of the country’s reunification of South and North. We make films in an area of the world that is barely interested…
Maher Abi Samra
, 2016
, 67 min
Today, having a live-in maid in Lebanon is no longer a luxury nor a distinction of social class, but a common practice for upper and middle (mostly urban) classes since the end of the Lebanese Civil War in 1990. Domestic work is a real market in Lebanon, segmented according to the nationality and ethnicity of…
September 2022
Maher Abi Samra, Marwa Arsanios, Jumana Manna, Christian Ghazi
SOCIAL STUDIES features works by Maher Abi Samra, Marwa Arsanios, Christian Ghazi & Jumana Manna. This program presents Christian Ghazi’s 1969 film A Hundred Faces for a Single Day in conversation with three films from Lebanon and Palestine made between 2008 and 2016. Ghazi’s avant-garde cinematic manifesto captures a society at the cusp between Lebanon’s so-called Golden Age and…
August 2022
Kaya Behkalam, Azin Feizabadi, Arvand Dashtaray
REHEARSING REALITY showcases a selection of films that blend fact and fiction, blurring the line between the staged and the improvised. Featuring works by Azin Feizabadi /Kaya Behkalam, and Arvand Dashtaray. This program is co-presented by ArteEast and Rooftop Films. This series is part of the legacy program Unpacking the ArteArchive, which preserves and presents over 17 years of film and video programming by ArteEast. In…
July 2022
Marwa Arsanios, Ahmad Ghossein, Ghassan Halwani
This selection of films draws from ArteEast’s ArteArchive to explore the notion of absence–that which is erased, missing or forgotten–as a central theme in the works of Lebanese filmmakers Marwa Arsanios, Ahmad Ghossein, and Ghassan Halwani Both Marwa Arsanios and Ghassan Halwani use animation as a means to render that which is invisible visible, while Halwani also uses…
June 2022
Annemarie, Enas I. Al-Muthaffar, Nahed Awwad, Ayreen Anastas, Larissa Sansour
The Second Intifada heralded a particularly fresh, urgent and experimental approach to filmmaking, in tune with the uprisings to which they contributed. Working at a distance from both the main political organizations and, often, the aesthetic insistences of Global Northern art cinema funding, filmmakers took advantage of accessible technologies to forge new notions of freedom. The prolific…
April 2022
Yto Barrada, Malak Helmy, Lara Baladi, Marianne Fahmy, Maha Maamoun, Setareh Shahbazi
Monuments & Flowers Curated by Regine Basha Monuments & Flowers brings together a selection of seminal video work by women artists culled from the archives of ArteEast with the work of contemporary voices including Yto Barrada, Lara Baladi, Marianne Fahmy, Malak Helmy Maha Maamoun and Setareh Shahbazi with Mirene Arsanios. How do we reflect upon…
#AFFC2022 April 7-22, 2022 https://affc.eventive.org/welcome The Arab American National Museum (AANM), the Arab Film and Media Institute (AFMI), ArteEast, and Mizna proudly present the Arab Film Fest Collab (AFFC) from April 7-17, 2022. The AFFC is a collectively produced virtual film festival, screening independent Arab cinema for audiences across the United States. With programs featuring films, panel discussions, and…
Setareh Shahbazi
, 2017
, 19 min
ANTEDOOM translates the unrepresentable brutality of our daily newsfeeds into an artistic language that peels away from single occurrences and describes a specific feeling of strain compared to the anxious moment before a medical diagnosis is announced. Derived from the term Anteroom – a small outer room used as a waiting room for medical inspections…
March 2022
Mohamed Soueid
Mohamed Soueid came of age in the Beirut of the early 1970s, when over forty movie theaters were operating in the Lebanese capital, offering lovers of cinema something possibly unique in terms of geo-artistic variety. Not only could Lebanese moviegoers watch the latest European and American films, both arthouse and commercial, but thanks to very…
