Artists' Film

Fri 29th Feb 7.00pm - Rich Mix
Q&A with Zineb Sedira & Lilly Ladjevardi

Saphir Saphir Caramel
  • Algeria / France / UK. 2006. Zineb Sedira. HD. 18 min. PG
  • Saphir develops as metaphor for both connection and separation: the lone figure of a man starting out to sea and a woman waiting in the Es Safir hotel. Central to the film is the juxtaposition of imagery to suggest that while Sedira enjoys the rediscovery of her homeland, many of its disillusioned young men are contemplating escape across the blue sea to Europe.
Caramel
Dahiet al Bareed
    Dahiet al Bareed
  • UK / Palestine 2002. Rosalind Nashashibi. 16mm. 6 min. 12A
  • One slow, hot afternoon in a neighbourhood built to be a utopian suburb for employees of the Palestinian Post Office. Rosalind Nashashibi won Beck's Futures in 2003.
Replay
    Replay
  • Lebanon. 2002. Lamia Joreige. Video, 12A
  • Replay is concerned with rupture in time and place, with images appearing as reminiscences of the past.
Nothing Will Happen
    Nothing Will Happen
  • Palestine / US / Austria 2003. Emily Jacir. Video. 20 min. U
  • An oblique reference to that state where everything appears normalised and time and space become subsumed into a regular rhythmic pattern. Foyer Projection
Measures of Distance
    Measures of Distance
  • UK 1988. Mona Hatoum. Video. 16 min. 15
  • Letters written to the artist from her mother in Beirut that speak of exile and displacement.
3494 Houses and 1 Fence
    3494 Houses and 1 Fence
  • Australia / Lebanon 2006. Mireille Astore and Fabian Astore. BetaSP. 12A
  • An assault on the senses using rapid montage of the idyllic and banal 'accessible outback' town of Broken Hill, Australia juxtaposed with Ain-Haj-Elias, Lebanon
The Magician
    The Magician
  • Morocco 2003. Yto Barrada. Video. 18 min PG
  • The Magician performs the simplest of tricks with a gravitas that contrasts almost comically with his unkempt disposition. Foyer Projection
Brick Sellers of Kabul
    Brick Sellers of Kabul
  • Afghanistan / US 2006. Lida Abdul. 16mm transferred to video. 6 min. 12A
  • A hauntingly beautiful film portraying young boys lined up to sell bricks to a man in the middle of the desert.
White House
    White House
  • Afghanistan / US 2006. Lida Abdul. 16mm transferred to video. 5 min. 12A
  • The artist stands in a bleak landscape painting the ruins of a Kabul building.
Dancing Fog
    Dancing Fog, White Dunes, Flowing Sand, Red Tide, Red Ocean Star
  • US / Neth / Iran / Qatar / Mozambique 2006. Lilly Ladjevardi & Kika Vliegenthart. Video. U
  • A series of static frames of natural landscapes, each piece is a visual meditation of serenity. Foyer Projection
Passage
  • Passage
  • United States-Iran 2001. Shirin Neshat and Philip Glass. 12 min.12A
  • Philip Glass's orchestration rhythmically underscores the ritualized movements of the funerary preparations and procession that are the film's subjects. Neshat's panoramic landscape provides an epic backdrop to the actions of figures who move from the ritual to the elemental, giving rise to dust, sticks, stones and fire, which form a metaphoric circle of life, death, and the hope of renewal. Magical.
  • Still: Passage, 2001 Color video installation with soundtrack by Philip Glass 11:40, dimensions vary with installation © Shirin Neshat, 2001 Courtesy the artist and Gladstone Gallery, New York. Photo: Larry Barns With the support of the Gladstone Gallery