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MAPPING SUBJECTIVITY FILM SERIES SCREENS
RARELY EXHIBITED WORKS OF MASTER AND EMERGING FILMMAKERS FROM THE ARAB
WORLD
Third Edition Features 10 North American
Premieres, 3 U.S. Premieres, and 4 New York Premieres
Mapping Subjectivity : Experimentation in Arab
Cinema from the 1960s to Now, Part III
November 1–25, 2012
The Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters
—The Museum of
Modern Art presents Mapping Subjectivity : Experimentation in
Arab Cinema from the 1960s to Now, Part III, November 1 through
25, 2012, in The Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters. As in the preceding
editions, Mapping Subjectivity looks into the region’s largely
unknown heritage of auteur, personal, and sometimes experimental film,
highlighting kinships in sensibilities, approaches, and poetics across
generations and countries. Works selected hail from Algeria, Egypt,
Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, and Tunisia, and include film and video,
shorts and features, documentary and fiction that reflect a diversity
and richness of voices and visual languages. The exhibition is
organized by Jytte Jensen, Curator, Department of Film, and Rasha
Salti, Independent Curator. Presented in association with ArteEast, New
York.
Mapping Subjectivity : Experimentation in Arab
Cinema from the 1960s to Now, Part III opens on November 1,
coinciding with this year’s 50th anniversary of Algerian independence,
with a screening of Damien Ounouri’s Fidaï (Algeria, 2012), a
documentary recounting the struggles and hardships during the war as
told by Mohamed El Hadi, the director’s uncle.
This installment of Mapping Subjectivity also features titles
that are considered auteur classics of Arab cinema, such as Ridha
Béhi’s Sun of the Hyenas (Tunisia, 1977) ; Mohamed Aboulouakar’s
rarely screened Hadda (Morocco/France, 1984) ; several recently
restored and digitized Super 8mm films by Ahmed Zir, shot between the
late 1970s and now ; and Ahmed Bennys’s astonishing
documentary/animation Mohammadia (Tunisia, 1974). Myth and
music are explored with evocative imagination by Eric and Marc Hurtado
(Etant Donnés) in Jajouka, Something Good Comes to You
(Morocco/France, 2012).
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