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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150530T200000
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SUMMARY:Arab Experimental Films: Reflections on Situated Time
DESCRIPTION:Sight Unseen presents\n“Arab Experimental Films: Reflections 
 on Situated Time”\nCurated by Samirah Alkassim\n\nMay 30th 2015\nThe Red
  Room at Normals Books &amp\; Records\n425 E. 31st St.\nBaltimore\, MD 212
 18\n8PM\nFREE\n\nPROGRAM NARRATIVE\nThis screening is comprised of five re
 cent short films that provide a sampling from among the contemporary exper
 imental film scene of the Middle East. From references that are more recog
 nizable to an American audience\, like the style of film noir\, to more sp
 ecific signifiers tied to geographic location and cultural histories\, eac
 h film casts a reflection on the historical circumstances from which it wa
 s produced that are also global in their resonance. On the Road (be fekret
  hastam) frames a soul’s longing to encounter its other through eight wi
 ndows playing simultaneously\; Deep Sleep\, shot under self-hypnosis\, “
 takes us on a journey through the sound waves of Gaza to travel between di
 fferent sights of modern ruin” (Al-Sharif) \; Rice City uses the convent
 ions of film noir to portray an ambiance of psycho-social stasis in Egypt 
 preceding the revolution of 2011\; Transparent Evil frames the eeriness of
  empty spaces outside Tahrir Square during the 2011 Egyptian revolution\; 
 and Incarnation of a Bird from an Oil Painting fuses an obscure 20th centu
 ry snippet of Lebanese intellectual history with an homage to surrealist c
 inema. The cultural locations are Abu Dhabi\, Cyprus\, Cairo\, Gaza\, Beir
 ut\, but the cultural references are global\, via a mixture of overlapping
  locations\, superimposed elements\, and stylistic techniques\, invoking t
 he materiality of film\, video and photography. Such works and many more o
 f their kind engage us with the fertile creative work of today’s experim
 ental filmmakers from an oft-portrayed (in many cases justifiably) beleagu
 ered region.\n-Samirah Alkassim\n\nPROGRAM\nOn the Road (be fekret hastam)
  by Naz Shahrokh (United Arab Emirates\, 2013\, 6:40)\nDeep Sleep\, by Bas
 ma Al-Sharif (Jordan/US\, 2014\, 12:45)\nRice City\, by Sherif El-Azma (Eg
 ypt\, 2010\, 19:45)\nTransparent Evil\, by Roy Samaha (Lebanon\, 2011\, 26
 :00)\nIncarnation of a Bird from an Oil Painting\, by Omar Fakhoury &amp\;
  Roy Samaha (Lebanon\, 2014\, 8:00)\n\n&nbsp\;\n\nFilmmakers' biographies 
 can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/events/428629103974953/\n\n&n
 bsp\;\n\n***We will be accepting donations at the door which will go towar
 ds supporting New Lens\, a a youth driven social justice organization in B
 altimore\, working to assist youth in making art and media about often-und
 errepresented perspectives.\nMore Info: http://www.newlens.info/
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LOCATION:Normal's Book & Records\, 425 E 31st St\, Baltimore\, Maryland\, 2
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