MAPPING SUBJECTIVITY
Organisation: Tate Modern
Time: 04 March 2011 7:00pm - 27 March 2011 5:30pm
Place: Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1
Tate Modern Presents:
MAPPING SUBJECTIVITY
Experimentation in Arab Cinema from the 1960s to Now.
This programme maps the intangible connections within the largely unknown heritage of personal, artistic and experimental cinema from the Arab world. Ranging from acclaimed masterworks to the rare and recently rediscovered, this series showcases inspiring films from Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine and Syria (see below for film listings).
During the 1960s, galvanised by a broader global vanguard of counter-cultural experimentation in poetry, literature and theatre, filmmakers began to craft a language and form that broke away from established conventions and commercial considerations, ultimately clearing the ground for boldly subjective cinematic expressions. Much of the inventive, daring and formally challenging filmmaking at work today in the Arab world has its roots – both acknowledged and not – in this pioneering drive to experiment with narrative, representation and the production of images.
4 – 27 March 2011
Tate Modern
Bankside
London
SE1 9TG
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The presentation at Tate Modern is supported by the World Collections Programme.
Friday 4 March 2011 | 19:00 | The Mummy and Night of Counting the Years | Egypt | 1973 | 110mins
Saturday 5 March 2011 | 18:00 | Domestic Tourism II | Egypt | 2009 | 62mins
Saturday 5 March 2011 | 20:00 | Port of Memory | Palestine | 2009 | 63mins
Friday 11 March 2011 | 19:00 | China Is Still Far | Algeria | 2008 | 120mins
Saturday 12 March 2011 | 19:00 | The East Wind or The Violent Silence | Morocco | 1975 | 90mins
Sunday 13 March 2011 | 14:00 | The Tangier 8 | Morocco | 2009 | 43mins
Sunday 13 March 2011 | 17:00 | Cracks | Morocco | 2010 | 75mins
Friday 18 March 2011 | 19:00 | Chronicle of a Disappearance | Palestine | 1996 | 88mins
Saturday 19 March 2011 | 20:00 | Divine Intervention | Palestine | 2002 | 92mins
Sunday 20 March 2011 | 14:00 | 2 films: Ceasefire and Sons of The Wind | Algeria | 2003/1981 | 15mins/71mins
Sunday 20 March 2011 | 17:00 | The Man Who Was Looking at the Windows | Algeria | 1986 | 65mins
Tuesday 22 March 2011 | 18:30 | 2 films: The Misfortunes of Some… and Love Aborted | Syria | 1981/1985 | 52mins each
Wednesday 23 March 2011 | 19:00 | Life after the Fall | Iraq | 2008 | 100mins
Thursday 24 March 2011 | 18:00 | Summer '70 | Egypt | 1970-71 | 63mins
Friday 25 March 2011 | 19:00 | Al-Yazerli | Iraq/Syria | 1972 | 95mins
Saturday 26 March 2011 | 12:00 | A Perfect Day | Lebanon | 2005 | 88mins
Saturday 26 March 2011 | 14:00 | 2 films: Ashes and The Lost Film | Lebanon | 2005/2003 | 26mins/42mins
Saturday 26 March 2011 | 16:00 | Lecture-performance: Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige perfrom Aida, Save Me (Aida, sauve-moi, 2010)
Saturday 26 March 2011 | 19:00 | I Am the One Who Brings Flowers to Her Grave | Syria | 2006 | 110mins
Sunday 27 March 2011 | 12:00 | Phantom Beirut (Ashbah Bayroot) | Lebanon | 1998 | 153mins
Sunday 27 March 2011 | 17:30 | 2 films: 1958 and In This House | Lebanon | 2009/2005 | 66mins/30mins
Mapping Subjectivity: Experimentation in Arab Cinema 1960 to Now is organised by ArteEast and The Museum of Modern Art in association with Tate Modern, premiering at MoMA Oct/Nov 2010 and curated by Rasha Salti and Jytte Jensen. Made possible through the generous support of averda.
Image above from film still of The Time That Remains | 2009 | Palestine/Great Britain/Italy/Belgium/France | Directed by Elia Suleiman