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Chronicles of a Paradise Lost: Filming Absence (Lebanese Cinema 1965-2010)
October 31, 2011
This tour follows two critically acclaimed programs curated by ArteEast; The Calm After The Storm: Making Sense of Lebanon's Civil War in association with Film Society of Lincoln Center, and
the French Institute's (Alliance Française) World Nomads: Lebanon program.
Lebanese cinema is relatively young in comparison with that of neighboring Egypt or Syria. Lebanon’s fifteen-year history of civil war, which ravaged the country through 1991, stifled efforts to develop infrastructure for a viable film industry. However, the trauma of war also gave rise to a radical engagement with film: documentary and nonfiction genres proliferated and filmmakers were inspired to forge a subjective voice through a daring auteur cinema despite a dearth of resources, winning Lebanese cinema great international acclaim. It is a cinema with a distinctive identity: visually rich and complex, with narratives that defy conventions of plot and drama and blur the traditional boundaries between fiction and nonfiction.
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Museum of Modern Art, New York
October 5 - 23, 2011
This three-part program aims to map a largely unknown heritage of personal, non-mainstream, artistic and sometimes experimental cinema from the Arab world. Emerging in the 1960s, from within a wider trend of vanguard and counter-cultural experimentation in the arts (poetry, literature and theater), filmmakers crafted a language and form that broke away from established conventions and commercial considerations, ultimately clearing the ground for subjectivity to find expression. A significant part of the inventive, daring and formally challenging filmmaking at work today in the Arab world has roots –actively and consciously or not– in this pioneering drive to experiment with narrative, representation and the production of images. Programmed cross-national and cross generational, the films in the series highlight kinships, intangible connections, and conversations. |
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Conversation with Film Screenings
October 3, 2011
Scholar Ella Habiba Shohat and curator Rasha Salti discuss the new edition of Shohat's seminal book, Israeli Cinema: East/West and the Politics of Representation (Library of Modern Middle Eastern Studies, 2010) which shaped new paradigms for critical discussion of 'national cinema' and the Zionist master-narrative. Their conversation is punctuated by brief excerpts from Palestinian films produced within Israel, and diasporic films that address contested geography of Israel/Palestine. New School faculty member Sumita Chakravarty, a film scholar and author, offers introductory remarks.
‘Shohat's Israeli Cinema is a tour-de-force. Not only is it theoretically sophisticated, it is also deeply rooted in the changing politics and perceptions of the Israeli predicament as they bear upon Israeli films. With brilliant humanistic insight, Shohat describes the underlying ideological myths and allegorical structures and contributes significantly to a new, enlarged understanding of the dynamics between Ashkenazi and Sephardic communities, and between them and the Palestinians.’
– Edward Said, 1989
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Curated by ArteEast
May 3 - 31, 2011
Building on the stellar accomplishments of veteran directors of past decades, a new generation of filmmakers has emerged in the past ten years, offering a fresh and bold cinematic voice, engaged with the complexities of present-day Morocco. This series highlights contemporary issues that pervade artistic production in Morocco: the legacy of the years of political repression, undocumented workers’ migration to Europe, Casablanca as an urban metropolis, and Morocco’s increasing commitment to cultural diversity. |
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Presented as part of ArteEast's international touring film program.
March 4 - 27, 2011
Following a highly acclaimed premier at The Museum of Modern Art in October 2010, Mapping Subjectivity: Experimentation in Arab Cinema, 1960s – Now travels to Tate Modern in London. |
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