https://dr2.whrdmena.org/tags/events en https://dr2.whrdmena.org/article/287 <div class="section field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item odd"><img src="https://dr2.whrdmena.org/sites/default/files/styles/500x/public/letters1-150x150.png?itok=qeilePu2" width="150" height="150" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="section field field-name-field-article-image-caption field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item odd">Sawt al Niswa</div></div></div><div class="section field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item odd"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td><span style="font-size:12px;">I highly recommend this screening. Mona <span data-scayt_word="Hatoum’s" data-scaytid="1">Hatoum’s</span> Video letter and Chantal Ackerman’s Film. Maybe they will give you inspiration for your future projects.</span> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-size:12px;">LETTERS – video screening</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12px;">Wednesday June 30, 2010 at <span data-scayt_word="8pm" data-scaytid="5">8pm</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12px;">Beirut Art Center<br /> Duration: 101 min.<br /> Entrance: 3 000 LL</span></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><span style="font-size:12px;">Within the framework of the exhibition Witness by Mona <span data-scayt_word="Hatoum" data-scaytid="6">Hatoum</span>, Beirut Art Center will present <span data-scayt_word="Hatoum’s" data-scaytid="2">Hatoum’s</span> video work Measures of Distance alongside Belgian filmmaker and artist Chantal <span data-scayt_word="Akerman’s" data-scaytid="8">Akerman’s</span> News from Home. The two works deal with communication across continents between mothers and their daughters who have left home.</span> <p><span style="font-size:12px;"><span style="line-height: 1.538em;">Mona </span><span data-scayt_word="Hatoum" data-scaytid="9">Hatoum</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12px;">Measures of Distance<br /> 1988. Video (color, sound). 15:26 min. English and Arabic</span></p> <p> <span style="font-size:12px;">Measures of Distance is constructed from a series of grainy stills shot in extreme close-ups of <span data-scayt_word="Hatoum’s" data-scaytid="3">Hatoum’s</span> mother in the shower of the family home in Beirut. The images are overlaid with a mesh of Arabic writing, like a curtain or a veil, which represent her mother’s letters from Beirut to her in London. On the soundtrack can be heard an animated conversation between <span data-scayt_word="Hatoum" data-scaytid="10">Hatoum</span> and her mother overlaid with <span data-scayt_word="Hatoum’s" data-scaytid="4">Hatoum’s</span> voice reading a translation of the letters into English.<br /> The video is concerned with the artist’s separation from her Palestinian family and in particular, her relationship with her mother.<br /> The personal and political are inextricably bound up in a narrative that explores identity and sexuality against a backdrop of traumatic social rupture, war, exile and displacement.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12px;">Chantal <span data-scayt_word="Akerman" data-scaytid="21">Akerman</span><br /> News from Home<br /> 1976. 85 min. French with English subtitles<br /> Letters from Chantal <span data-scayt_word="Akerman’s" data-scaytid="17">Akerman’s</span> mother are read over a series of elegantly composed shots of 1976 New York, where our (unseen) filmmaker and protagonist has relocated. <span data-scayt_word="Akerman’s" data-scaytid="18">Akerman’s</span> unforgettable time capsule of the city is also a gorgeous meditation on urban alienation and personal and familial disconnection.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12px;"><a href="http://www.beirutartcenter.org/parallel-events.php">http://www.beirutartcenter.org/parallel-events.php</a>?<span data-scayt_word="exhibid" data-scaytid="24">exhibid</span>=115&amp;<span data-scayt_word="statusid" data-scaytid="25">statusid</span>=2</span></p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div></div></div><div class="section field field-name-field-publisher field-type-entityreference field-label-inline clearfix"><h3 class="field-label">Publisher:&nbsp;</h3><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item odd">Sawt al&#039; Niswa</div></div></div> <div class="field field-name-field-section field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-inline clearfix clearfix"> <p class="field-label">Section:&nbsp;</p> <ul class="field-items"> <li class="field-item even"> <a href="/sawt-sections/opinions">Opinions</a> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="field field-name-field-category field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-inline clearfix clearfix"> <p class="field-label">Category:&nbsp;</p> <ul class="field-items"> <li class="field-item even"> <a href="/category/feminism-media">Feminism &amp; Media</a> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-inline clearfix clearfix"> <p class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</p> <ul class="field-items"> <li class="field-item even"> <a href="/tags/video-workshop-diary">Video workshop : the diary</a> </li> <li class="field-item odd"> <a href="/tags/events">events</a> </li> <li class="field-item even"> <a href="/tags/screenings">screenings</a> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="field field-name-field-featuredslider field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above clearfix"> <p class="field-label">Featured:&nbsp;</p> <ul class="field-items"> <li class="field-item even"> <a href="/featured/no">No</a> </li> </ul> </div> Mon, 21 Jun 2010 21:00:00 +0000 Azadeh Faramarziha 287 at https://dr2.whrdmena.org