Imaging Land, Labor, and Infrastructure: Films by Ateyyat El Abnoudy (Egypt)

12 pm New York l 6 pm Vienna

The OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts (CHRA) invites network members to attend the online portion of its "Imaging Land, Labor, and Infrastructure" public film screenings. The series, curated by Nadine Fattaleh, CHRA Fellow, considers the politics and poetics of visibility in the Global South and the complex ways in which moving images of agricultural labor, large-scale dams, and rural dispossession constitute a fragmentary audio-visual archive conversant with the circulation of ideas around Third Cinema.

A network of Ciné-Clubs in Syria, convened by Omar Amiralay (1944-2011) and other veteran filmmakers, were unique spaces for the circulation of politicized images in the age of celluloid. They brought together artists, intellectuals, and enthusiasts interested in watching and debating the relationship between cinema and radical politics.

In the spirit of the Ciné-Clubs, this program will feature short films by Ateyyat El Abnoudy (1939-2018), developing a conversation about innovative aesthetics from the 1970s that mediates narratives of marginalized and exploited communities. The program seeks to recreate an intimate space for dialogue around the transformative possibilities of cinema, then and now, in global struggles around land, labor and infrastructure.

The screening will be followed by a post-screening discussion with Fattaleh. The screening and discussion are free and open to the public.

Ateyyat El Abnoudy films in the screening:

حصان الطين Mud House (1970), 12 min
أغنية توحة الحزينة Sad Song of Touha (1972), 12 min
الساندوتش The Sandwich (1975), 12 min
بحار العطش Seas of Thirst (1981), 44 min
 

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Time: 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Location: Online Event