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The Eye Struck Me and the Lord
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Noble Sacrifice |
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Co-presented by Available Light Screening Collective
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Demo
Fadi Yeni Turk | Lebanon | 6 min. | video | 2002
An experiment with digital editing makes ghosts of casual observers
at the demolition of a Beirut high-rise. |
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Untitled for Several Reasons
Roy Samaha | Lebanon 8 min | video | 2003
Received mass media images – pornography, BBC coverage of
the war in Iraq – layer and thicken, until the image can only
be grasped in its pixel materiality. Images become infected with
bit rot. Sound, edited from the image feed, pushes this haptic image
into the body. |
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The Room
Amal Kenawy | Lebanon | 12 min. | video | 2003
Disregarding the barriers between media, this astonishing work
jams the video medium with performance, delicate sculptural installation,
clay animation, and incantatory stitching. Strange fetishes embody,
poetically and quite viscerally, the entrapment felt by a sacrificial
bride. |
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Sad Man
Lina Ghaibeh | Lebanon | 4.5 min. | video | 2001
An accomplished animator, Ghabieh captures emotion in the quality
of her line. Her Sad Man is a bachelor living in unkempt quarters
in a grubby Beirut neighborhood, his daily routine generating surprising
variations. |
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The Eye Struck
Me and the Lord of the Throne Saved Me
Hassan Khan | Egypt | 4 min. | video | 2001
A divine Egyptian punk video. |
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Noble Sacrifice
Vatché Boulghourjian | Lebanon | 38 min. | video | 2002
Ashura is the annual ritual mass bloodletting performed by Shia
Muslims to mourn the martyrdom of Imam Hussein, whose murder in
the late 7th century marked the split of Shia and Sunni Islam and
remains an inspiration for martyrdom operations (suicide bombings)
today. The ten days of Ashura culminate in a march where Shia men
cut themselves and beat the wounds until they bleed profusely, literally
spilling a river of blood. Boulgourjian refuses to clean up Ashura;
instead, he frames the gory ritual in Shia theology and politics
and an aggressive, emboldened aesthetics.
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| JOIN US after the screening in room 222 for
a discussion of the situation of contemporary independent media
arts in Lebanon and other Arab nations, with video artist Mohamed
Soueid and curator Laura U. Marks of Simon Fraser University. (Mohamed
Soueid’s documentary Nightfall screens at 5:00 pm.) |
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