[antiwar-van] new arab video series Oct 13-14 & 20th

[reemal at shaw.ca]

Fresh perspectives from the Arab world
New series of Arab videotapes In Vancouver
Runs: Oct 13-14 & 20th.

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in/tangible cartographies: new arab videos
          Sunday, October 13 - 7:30 pm & 9:30 PM
          Monday, October 14 - 7:30 pm & 9:30 PM
    AT Pacific Cinematheque : 1131 Howe Street   
   (between Helmcken and Davie), Vancouver
         More info:  
    http://www.cinematheque.bc.ca/NewArab.html
    
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    untitled: Jayce Salloum 1999-2002
    Sunday October 20 - 7:30 pm
     More info:   
    http://www.cinematheque.bc.ca/JayceUntitled.html

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VANCOUVER - Starting on September 8, a new series at
the Pacific Cinematheque
brings together a startling array of voices that are
    not often heard: those
of Arab artists. Curated by Vancouver-based artist
Jayce Salloum, the series
"in/tangible cartographies: new arab video" aims to
shed new light on the
experiences of people living in Palestine, North
Africa and the Middle East.

For full program see:
www.cinematheque.bc.ca/NewArab.html

Highlighted works include:
 a. A Woman Taxi Driver in Sidi Bel-Abbes, about the
only woman taxi driver
in a traditional Algerian town divided by extremist
political violence. The
52 minute video was voted Best Documentary Film at
Qatar's Arab Screen
Independent Film Festival.
 b. Survival Signs, a fascinating contemporary video
about the language's
distingrating ability to communicate. It has been
programmed at film and
video festivals in Toronto, Amsterdam, Brussels,
Tokyo, Casablanca and
Locarno.
 c. Award Winning Palestinian Filmmaker Elia
Suleiman's, "Cyber Palestine",
the tale of a modern day Mary and Joseph, two
Palestinian returnees living in
Gaza, and their tribulation with the Israeli occupation.

The series will be followed by the Oct 20 screening
of Salloum's ongoing
untitled project, with the artist in attendance.
untitled was the work at he
centre of last September's controversial
Arab-Canadian art exhibit in
Ottawa's Museum of Civilization, when the Museum
sought to postone "The Lands
Within Me," a large exhibition of works by
Arab-Canadian artists, after the
September 11 attacks.


in/tangible cartographies: new arab video
Sept 8-9, 22-23, Oct 13-14
More info: http://www.cinematheque.bc.ca/NewArab.html

untitled: Jayce Salloum 1999-2002
Sunday October 20 - 7:30 pm
More info:
http://www.cinematheque.bc.ca/JayceUntitled.html

Pacific Cinematheque
1131 Howe Street (between Helmcken and Davie), Vancouver
24 Hour Info Line: 604 688 FILM
Web: http://www.cinematheque.bc.ca


USEFUL LINKS
Full program details:
http://www.cinematheque.bc.ca/NewArab.html
About Jayce Salloum:
http://www.vdb.org/smackn.acgi$artistdetail?SALLOUMJ
About Jayce Salloum's untitled:
http://www.dijafragma.com/konverzacija/1salloum.htm