| December 2011 |
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Arab Film Festival Brings Alternative Films, Arab Spring To Dearborn
by Kate Abbey-Lambertz, Huffington Post
From Lebanon to Tunisia, from soccer players to amateur filmmakers, the 2011 Arab Film Festival will bring a multitude of voices from across the Middle East to an intimate theater in the heart of the largest Arab community in the U.S. Since its inception in 2005, the Arab American National Museum has hosted an annual film festival to showcase contemporary Arab and Arab-American cinema. But this year's event, showing a total of nine films Thursday through Sunday, brings an added twist. For the first time, the museum moved away from having open submissions and instead brought in an independent curator, Muhammed Shawky of New York-based non-profit ArteEast. Shawky's goal was to create a different kind of program, one that showcases alternative films made in the lead-up to the Arab Spring. More
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مهرجان الفيلم العربي يحتفل بالسينما البديلة
الواحد-ديترويت
الجزيرة
حملت أفلام الدورة السابعة لمهرجان الفيلم العربي، الذي ينظمه المتحف العربي الأميركي بمدينة ديربورن بولاية ميشيغن الأميركية، قيمة مضافة بما تحتويه من مقاربات وتأملات بالمجتمع العربي من النواحي الاجتماعية والسياسية والثقافية، خاصة في آخر خمسة أعوام قبل بدء موجة "الربيع العربي" الذي وصلت أصداؤه الولايات المتحدة. More
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| September 2011 |
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ArteEast Launches Trailer
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| August 2011 |
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Important Artists from Pakistan and Iraq Visit America
Shahid Nadeem, Dr. Waleed Shamil Hussein and Amir Al-Azraki
This June three exciting artists, Shahid Nadeem, Pakistan’s leading playwright and director; Dr. Waleed Shamil Hussein of Baghdad; and playwright Amir Al-Azraki of Basra, Iraq came to New York City, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. More
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گزارش پانتهآ بهرامی از نمایشگاه «برخلاف هنجارها» در نیویورک
پانتهآ بهرامی
پانتهآ بهرامی - بدن و انرژی نهفته در آن بنمایهی نمایشگاهی بود که تحت عنوان «برخلاف هنجارها» در نگارخانهی «کلیو» در شهر نیویورک برگزار شد. در روزهای پایانی ماه ژوئن شاهد گشایش این نمایشگاه بودیم که در آن آثار ویدیویی و پرترهی هفت هنرمند که یا در خاورمیانه زندگی میکنند، و یا آثارشان در مورد این منطقه است، به نمایش گذاشته شد.
ر نمایشگاه «برخلاف هنجارها» آثار دو ایرانی خودنمایی میکند. More
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| May 2011 |
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Aesthetic Uprisings
Signs of the Times: The Popular Literature of Tahrir: Protest Signs, Graffiti & Street Art
In the heady days that followed the January 25 demonstrations in Egypt, the air seemed to crackle with images from the myriad protests and demonstrations and strikes and uprisings all across the country. For those of us following events from outside, it became part of the daily routine: together with watching the latest reports from al-Jazeera and reading the latest online news, we took in the images being posted (sometimes within minutes of being taken) on Facebook and gathered into albums on Flickr and Y-Frog, not to mention on innumerable other blogs and sites. All this constituted a sort of free-floating archive, albeit one that grew (thrillingly) by the second and thus became harder and harder to negotiate (and this archive, of course, continues to grow as the political struggles in Egypt continue). More
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| April 2011 |
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Mapping Subjectivity: Arab Cinema at the Tate
Dazed Digital talks to Rasha Salti about Mapping Subjectivity and the political uprisings in the Arab World.
As the political uprising in the Arab World continues, Dazed Digital talks to curator Rasha Salti about how it effects filmmakers and the role of video documentation during the protests. More
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Press Release: CinémaTuesdays: World Nomads Morocco
Under the High Patronage of His Majesty Mohammed VI, King of Morocco - French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF), in partnership with ArteEast presents CinémaTuesdays: World Nomads Morocco
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| March 2011 |
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Canvas Magazine Profiles Mapping Subjectivity and MoMA
Museum of Modern Art: Examining the Middle East.
Canvas, the international bi-monthly magazine dedicated to art and culture from the Middle East and the Arab world, discusses Mapping Subjectivity and MoMA's recent involvement with the region. More
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| November 2010 |
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Antoine’s Afterlife in Film
by Nana Asfour, The New Yorker
Earlier this week, the Lebanese filmmakers Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige sat in a darkened screening room at MOMA, recounting a bizarre real-life incident surrounding a photo shown in one of their films. Little did they know that the image had another surprise in store for them.
The husband-and-wife duo is renowned for their thoughtful investigations, in films and art installations, of Lebanon’s precarious present and turbulent past—specifically its fifteen-year civil war (1975-1990), which defined much of their youth. They were in town for the first installment of “Mapping Subjectivity,” MOMA’s three-year festival of experimental Arab cinema, where they staged an hour-long performance centered on an event around their 2005 feature, “A Perfect Day.” More
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| October 2010 |
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Manhattan film festival seeks to tell the Arab story
by James Reini,The National
NEW YORK // Attracting film buffs to screenings of Arab cinema in Manhattan is easy, says Livia Alexander. Simply plaster posters of niqab-clad women across the city and title your movie series something like Unveiling the Veil.
But Ms Alexander, the co-organiser of a series of Arab New Wave films that opened yesterday at the Museum of Modern Art (Moma) is willing to risk securing a full house in order to tell a more daring story about Middle Eastern cinema.
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| September 2010 |
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ArteEast and MoMA announce three-year film initiative exploring avant-garde filmmaking across Arab countries over the last five decades
Mapping Subjectivity: Experimentation in Arab Cinema, 1960s – Now
PART 1: October 28 – November 22, 2010
The Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters
NEW YORK, September 10, 2010— The Museum of Modern Art and ArteEast launch Mapping Subjectivity: Experimentation in Arab Cinema, 1960s-Now, a three-year program of annual screenings of groundbreaking films and videos, celebrated masterworks, and modern cinema from Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine, Morocco, Syria and more, beginning this fall. More
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| April 2010 |
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Interview with Rasha Salti
by Senem Aytaç and Gözde Onaran for ALTYAZI Magazine
Translated by Gözde Onaran
Please click here for the full interview. More
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| September 2009 |
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Press Release: The First New York Kurdish Film Festival - A Cinema Across Borders
New York, NY— The First New York Kurdish Film Festival: A Cinema Across Borders is the first-ever film festival of Kurdish cinema in the United States. Bringing together an exciting range of films and documentaries from across the Kurdish region and the Kurdish diaspora, the festival will feature ten short films, a documentary and eight feature films, including the US premiere of The Storm by Kazım Öz (Ax, Fotograf). In addition, the festival will include a Filmmakers’ Panel with six prominent Kurdish filmmakers from Iran, Iraq, Turkey, and the diaspora to connect directly with New York audiences, and post-film Q&As with the filmmakers, providing potential new routes for understanding and dialogue. Situated in the heart of the Middle East, Kurdish cinema intersects with many of the great political conflicts of our age. These diverse films provide powerful and unexpected insights into our common world through stunning cinematography, rich narratives, and ... More
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| June 2006 |
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AUTONOMOUS SPACES: Though funded by the state, filmmakers in Syria continue to find ways to make their often critical voices heard.
By Cécile Boëx, Film Comment
Neglected-ignored even-Syrian cinema merits special attention for its originality, quality, and boldness. That said, compared to the high volume of film production in Egypt, the film industry's output is minuscule: since 1928, when the first Syrian film was made, the country has produced only about 150 features. More
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