MUS 175, 11am – 12:50pm
Guest: Professor Laura Marks
Laura Marks' visit continues tomorrow. She will be presenting work in Film 201 at 11am - 12:50pm in MUS 175. The list of work she is presenting is below. If you can't make it, one title is available for viewing on line:
Ghassan Salhab's "Dead Time" can be viewed at http://www.beirutletters.org/ or http://v2v.cc/v2v/
Also, if you care to read the material that Marks generously provided to the 201 students to the context for the screenings, you can read Tony Chakar's "Convulsive Fables" (from his "The Eyeless Map"; can be found on E-Reserve under Carl Bogner's name). Or read Mark's own "Letters from Beirut," missives she issued from Beirut during the bombardment of Beirut last summer. These letters can be found on her website http://www.sfu.ca/~lmarks under "Selected Essays" or at http://www.sfu.ca/~lmarks/letters%20from%20beirut.pdf
The work to screen includes animation, installation, personal video essay, experimental documentary, experimental archiving, and more. Marks has assembled a diverse bunch of quite recent work, mostly from Lebanon, but also from Iraq (via Finland), Palestine (via Canada), and Tunisia.
To screen (in addition to Salhab'd "Dead Time"):
Les Égarés
(Mounir Fatmi, Tunisia/France,video, color/sound 9min., 2005)
Sad Man
(Lina Ghaibeh, video, sound/color,4.5 min., 2001)
Vacuum
(Adel Abidin, Iraq/Finland, video installation [excerpt], 2005)
In This House
(Akram Zaatari,Lebanon, video, color/sound, 30min., 2005)
An Outing About the Sea
(Sobhi al-Zobaidi, Palestine/Canada, English subtitles, video, color/sound, 10 min., 2005)
Allahu Akbat
(Usama Alshaibi, Iraq/United States, video, black and white/sound, 5 min., 10
seconds, 2003)
Ca Sera Beau. From Beyrouth with Love
(Waël Noureddine, Lebanon, 16mm on DVD, 30min., 2005)
