Shifting Shores 2
Combined programme
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IFFR 2012
IFFR is offering a home-in-exile to the Visual Arts Festival Damascus, since it cannot take place in Syria this year.
In the programme Shifting Shores, we present recent video works by artists from different Arab countries. Centring on a net of meaning around the concepts of memory, identity and change, the works represent individual investigations into how history, collective memory and transmitted images and narratives are closely linked to contemporary fast-changing realities.
In this combined programme
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One Eye Open
A search for the artist’s roots as he travels to Japan and investigates a world that is partly foreign and fascinating, partly familiar. -
Bombes
Why do we want to be seen on Facebook? And how? To find out, the artist decided to emulate the profile pictures of a number… -
Master-Slave Dialectic
Who is the boss? The director, thinking and self-assured or the camera, a mindless machine? A power struggle with unexpected results. -
Adam
A young man navigates through the cityscapes of contemporary Cairo with its contrasting crowds and finds himself out of place and struggling to be hea -
E.D.L.
A video portrait of Lebanon’s national electricity building as an homage to a modernist project, linked to the very construction of Lebanon’s modern s