ArteEast is pleased to announce our new Unpacking the ArteArchive program RADICAL MODERNISMS: RETRACING ARAB AND NORTH AFRICAN HISTORIES a two-part program curated by Peter Limbrick, Professor of Film and Digital Media at UC Santa Cruz and author of Modernism as World Cinema: The Films of Moumen Smihi. This program addresses aesthetic and cultural experiments that […]
ArteEast is pleased to co-present a special Arab Film Series program as part of AANM’s JAM3A Festival – a free virtual music and arts festival taking place Sept. 23-26, 2021. Films and musical performances are all free with registration! RSVP for films at: arabfilmseries.org For more info on the festival go to www.jam3a.org “ART WAR,” […]
RECONSTRUCTING HISTORIES examines the role of the documentary in representing the Lebanese Civil War (1975–1990) through the experimental works of three important Lebanese post-war artists/filmmakers: Walid Raad, Jayce Salloum, and Mohamad Soueid. Online Screening: Sept 16-19 This program is available for audiences worldwide. FREE WITH RSVP / suggested donation $5: artearchive.org The Lebanese Civil War officially ended […]
Eleven Reflections on September + Panel Discussion Online Screening: September 9-16 RSVP HERE Free / 5$ suggested Donation Arab Film Series presents this month’s special program Eleven Reflections on September, by Andrea Assaf: a poetry, music, movement and digital media exploration of Arab American experience, Wars on/of Terror, and “the constant, quiet rain of death amidst beauty” […]
The Lebanese Rocket Society + Talkback Online Screening: August 28 to 29 RSVP HERE, tickets are limited! Free / On Donation Join us for this month’s Arab Film Series online program presenting the feature-length documentary The Lebanese Rocket Society directed by Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, which unravels the strange tale of the Lebanese space adventure […]
ArteEast is pleased to announce our new Unpacking the ArteArchive online platform! Unpacking the ArteArchive highlights ArteEast’s film and video archive, presenting curators’ selections from the ArteArchive in dialogue with contemporary voices. ArteEast’s ArteArchive is a valuable yet currently inaccessible film and video collection. Unpacking the ArteArchive allows important, mainly independent, video and filmmakers […]
COLLAPSED PRESENT Screening Online as part of ArteEast’s Unpacking the ArteArchive platform*: August 12 -16 Tickets Free / On Donations – RSVP HERE Marking the one-year anniversary of the devastating Beirut blast, this program of films and videos from Lebanese artists and filmmakers conveys their direct experience assimilating the overwhelming experience of loss and trauma. […]
ArteEast invites you to join a tour of Protocinema’s exhibition, “A Few in Many Places” Led by ArteEast Special Projects curator and Protocinema’s curator New York chapter, Lila Nazemian. Saturday, August 7th, 11 AM* REGISTER HERE Protocinema house on Governors Island | Colonels Row, 410A Limited attendance strictly by ticket *Note: Ferries to Governors Island […]
DISRUPTED PASTS, DISPLACED FUTURES Online Screening: July 24 – 27 Tickets free / on donation – RSVP HERE Livestream discussion with filmmakers Mariam Mekiwi and Larissa Sansour: July 24 at 12.30 pm EDT Disrupted Pasts, Displaced Futures is a selection of moving image works by contemporary artists from the Middle East and North Africa, blending […]
Next Gen Sudan + Talkback Thursday, July 15 to Sunday, July 18 Online Stream – Register for Free or $5 Suggested Donation Live Virtual Talkback: Sunday, July 18, at 3 pm EDT This month’s Arab Film Series brings us an intimate look at Sudanese youth – the challenges they face, the tough lessons learned, and the pride […]